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are now growing well, in fact that few things in his collection are doing 
better. The evidence already given proves conclusively that if the natural 
requirements of the plants are looked after they will succeed well for 
practically indefinite periods, and continue to produce their handsome and. 
remarkable flowers. The reputation of being intractable, which they 
formerly bore, evidently arose from wrong treatment. 
Flowers of that charming little hybrid, Dendrobium, x Cassiope, come 
from Mr. James Cypher, of Cheltenham. It combines all the good qualities 
of its parents, D. moniliforme (japonicum) ? and D. nobile albiflorum ¢; 
the flowers being pure white, with a light maroon blotch on the lip. The 
plant is of dwarf vigorous habit, and very floriferous, and it was certainly a 
very happy idea of Mr. Cookson’s to cross these two forms together. 
A flower of the remarkable and now well-known Dendrobium Brymer- 
ianum comes from De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. It is a 
fine, well-developed flower, such as is usually produced when the species is 
well grown. What can be the use of the densely fringed margin, which is over 
ten lines long, and like some much-branched seaweed, we are quite at a loss 
to conceive, though it probably is in some way connected with the insect 
which fertilises the flowers. Observations on this and several other species 
in their native habitats would be interesting, and probably throw some light 
on the subject. 
A very curious flower of the same species has appeared in the collection 
of A. J. Sanderson, Esq., Knowe Park, Galashiels, N.B., being, in fact, two 
flowers fused together. The pedicel, ovary, and column are twice as thick 
as usual, and flattened, consisting of two united side by side, and the latter 
bearing two perfect anthers with pollen. There are also two dorsal sepals, 
somewhat united at the base, but the lateral sepals, petals, and lip are 
normal in every respect, so that the effect of the union is not apparent in 
these organs. The fringe of the lip in this case is fully an inch deep. 
Flowers of Catasetum barbatum have been received from John W. 
Arkle, Esq., Holly Mount, West Derby, Liverpool, who states that last year 
it produced totally different flowers, green and fleshy, and with globose 
lip, and these are rightly supposed to belong to the other sex. In fact 
these were the female flowers, while those now sent are the males. Both 
kinds are occasionally borne at the same time. 
A curious freak of Selenipedium pulchellum has appeared in the 
collection of W. H. Lumsden, Esq., of Balmedie, Aberdeen, as we learn 
from the Gardeners’ Chronicle. One flower is normal in character, and thus 
much like the rose-tinted S. x leucorrhodum, but another on the same 
