170 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DENDROBIUMS FROM TYNTESFIELD. 
A BEAUTIFUL series of hybrid Dendrobiums is sent from the collection of 
F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, all of them being good, and 
two or three decidedly novel in colour. Mr. Stafford remarks that the show 
has been very good, though the majority are now over, and that of D. x 
Cybele a great many have flowered for the first time, the so-called ‘‘ Lang 
Tang var.” of D. nobile having produced some good things, both in colour 
and shape. 
D. X CyBELE.—Of this charming hybrid between D. Findlayanum and 
D. nobile, six very beautiful forms are sent. D. x C. giganteum is a very 
large form, having very little yellow round the maroon disc. D. x C. 
nobilius is large and very richly coloured, comparable in this respect with 
D. nobile nobilius, which is one of its parents. D. x C. ignescens is a 
remarkable novelty, excellent in shape, and the colour nearer rose than 
purple, or what might be described as “ crushed strawberry,” being of that 
peculiar shade seen in the rare D. nobile roseum. D. x C. erubescens has 
the upper part of all the segments of a delicate rose-blush, like a very 
light shade of the preceding form, and without any approach to purple. 
One other is so similar to the preceding as hardly to requiré a separate 
name, and the remaining one is fairly typical. 
D. X Nriope.—A seedling from D. tortile roseum X D. nobile is a fine 
form of D. X Niobe, and measures four inches in expanse. It shows much 
_ of the undulate character of the former, modified by the influence of D. 
nobile, particularly in the lip. ; 
D. X MELANODIScUS.—The variability of the hybrid between D. xX 
Ainsworthii and D. Findlayanum is notorious, at least nine distinct forms 
having received separate names. Two good forms are now sent, one of 
which has the maroon disc very small, and very little developed in front of 
the pale area-at the base, the other being fairly typical. 
D. X BuRBERRYANUM.—A seedling from D. x Dominyanum ? and 
D. Findlayanum 3, isa charming form of D. x Burberryanum, and is. 
excellent both in shape and colour, the segments being broad, and of a 
beautiful rose-purple shade, and the lip having a sharply defined maroon 
disc, surrounded by a white area, and tipped with rose-purple. 
D. X STAFFoRDI is a charming hybrid between D. x Cassiope 2? and D. 
Bensonz 3, nearly white in colour, with a small transverse maroon band on 
the disc, in front of which occur a number of small nearly confluent spots, 
forming a second paler band. 
D. X LutwycHEanum var. CLI is derived from D. x Ainsworthii and 
D. Wardianum, and is a charming form, fairly intermediate between its 
parents. 
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