THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



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BABU DOOLY CHAND'S ORCHID SHOW. 



On the 18th March Babu Dooly Chand invited His Honour the Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Bengal to inspect his valuable collection of Orchids, Palms, 

 Ferns, and other choice plants, after Sir John Woodburn had paid a visit 

 to the Babu's mill. On the 21st he threw open his suburban garden at 

 •Cossipore on the Dum-Dum Road to the public. Babu Dooly Chand may 

 with truth be termed a genuine " sportsman." His love for plants is now 

 proverbial, and his well laid out grounds and plant houses, stocked with 

 ■choicest specimens of plant life, are well worth the rather long trip to 

 Cossipore. On entering the houses one is struck with the growth of each 

 plant, proving tfee interest taken by the owner in each individual member 

 ■of his rich collection. The Orchids are all specimen plants, full of vigour, 

 and consequently exhibiting the finest blooms. Phalaenopsis was seen in 

 abundance, the species exhibited being grandiflora, rosea, amabilis, 

 Schilleriana, Sanderiana and Stuartiana. There were some grand spikes of 

 Phaius Wallichii, while Dendrobium nobile, D. Phalaenopsis, D. superbum 

 giganteum, D. aggregatum, infundibulum, &c, enlivened the houses by 

 their rich and varied hues. Oncidium ampliatum majus, O. Papilio, O. 

 superbum, and leopardinum added a picturesque quaintness, while bold 

 rich-coloured Amaryllis flamed all over the place. The dainty Lady's 

 Slipper Orchids here and there thrust out their modest but lovely flowers; 

 there were some grand clumps of Cypripedium concolor and hirsutissimum, 

 and beds of choice Ferns were coloured with many a lovely Cattleya, 

 •Gloxinia and Impatiens Sultani in full flower. . . . This amateur has 

 perhaps the finest collection of Orchids, Palms, and other rare and beautiful 

 plants of any one in India. Of course, it is not everyone who can indulge 

 his fancy to the same extent ; but it is the more creditable to Babu Dooly 

 Chand because he is a native of India, and might easily have been tempted 

 into spending his money in a less worthy direction.— In diait Gardening. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM x WENDLANIANUM. 



Another plant of this charming little natural hybrid has appeared, having 

 flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Bush Hill Park, who exhibited 

 it at the R.H.S. meeting on April 22nd. Messrs. Low state that it came 



: with O. crispun 



; taken for a form of 



of O. gloriosum. The resemblance to the rare O. crinitum is so marked, 

 •especially in the spiny crest, as to confirm the idea that it is a hybrid 

 between that species and O. crispum. The shape is about intermediate, the 

 segments slightly undulate, and the ground colour cream-white, slightly 

 tinged with rose, and profusely spotted with light brown. R- A. R. 



