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DENDROBIUM xX NESTOR. 
DENDROBIUM X NEsToR, which is represented’in the annexed figure, is a 
very handsome hybrid which was raised in the collection of C. Winn, 
Esq., The Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham, from D. Parishii ? and 
D. superbum anosmum ¢, and flowered for the first time in 1892 
(O’Brien in Gard. Chron., xi., p. 718). It has retained much of the dwarf 
character of the seed parent, but the flowers are considerably enhanced in 
size, being three inches in diameter, while the colour isa brilliant glossy 
‘rose-purple, with a large deep purple-crimson blotch on each side of the 
Fig. 24. DENDROBIUM X NESTOR. 
throat. Thus it may be said to combine the best characters of both the 
parents. It has the peculiar rhubarb scent of both its parents, which are 
intimately allied in general characters, though so distinct in size and in 
their geographical distribution. __Its general character is well shown in the 
photograph. It still seems to be rare in cultivation, and is probably not 
propagated with such facility as some of those partly derived from D. 
nobile, but it appears to have a very good constitution, and is certainly a 
very handsome thing. 
