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spikes, but the latter did not open properly, no doubt owing to the low 
temperature. Cypripedium x Harrisianum will have an opportunity of 
showing its likes or dislikes to the lower temperature of this house next 
year, though I have already grown it for several years among cool Odonto- 
glossums and Masdevallias in another house, and both the specimens grow 
freely and bloom twice annually. C. Boxallii also does well in this house 
near the door, and I intend to try C. X cenanthum here instead of in the 
Cattleya house. Some of the above experiences may be of interest to your 
readers, though I feel some diffidence in giving them. Personally I think 
that for the Odontoglossum crispum section not much below 50° in winter, 
and as little as possible above 65° degrees in summer, would be suitable. O. 
Lindleyanum, however, seemed happy in the lower temperature. 
HuGuH J. HUNTER. 
Edinburgh. 
At page 110 you inserted a little note of my experience with Orchids 
during the late frost. It may perhaps interest readers to know that Lycaste 
Skinneri, Dendrobium nobile, and Epidendrum vitellinum majus, though 
exposed to the same frost, do not appear to be injured. The first two are 
now in flower, and the latter is showing stronger flower buds than ever 
before, and I have had it four years. The pseudobulbs of Oncidium 
macranthum are still quite firm, but the new growth making in February 
was destroyed. 
ANDREW Lusk. 
The Dell, Woking. 
DENDROBIUM NITIDISSIMUM. 
It is interesting to record that the above very remarkable species, which 
constitutes a distinct section of the genus, has now appeared in cultivation. 
It was originally collected in the Admiralty Islands, by Mr. Moseley, of the 
Challenger Expedition, in 1875, and described by Reichenbach (Journ. 
Linn. Soc., xv., p. 112). Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, have now 
introduced it from New Ireland, another island off the north coast of New 
Guinea. The plant has somewhat of the habit of a Bulbophyllum, a stout 
rhizome throwing off growths in succession, which, singularly enough, are 
of two kinds. The ordinary growth is a narrowly conical pseudobulb from 
about 14 to 2} inches long, bearing a single linear-oblong leaf of about twice 
the size. But when one of the young growths intends to flower it rapidly 
elongates into a slender peduncle, about seven to nine inches long, bearing 
a reduced leaf at the apex, and a spathe three-quarters to an inch long in 
the axil, something like a Cattleya. Out of this the solitary Sarcochilus- 
