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suffused with shining brown ; the lip two inches long, laterally compressed, 
and still darker in colour; and the staminode obovately dilated, and light 
brown witha darker blotch in front. It appears to have an excellent 
constitution and is likely to-develop into a fine thing. It is dedicated to 
the late Mr. W. Varner, who for many years was a most enthusiastic 
amateur of Orchids. The flowers were sent by J. E. Vanner, Esq., of the 
same address, and it is plesant to find that the collection is being continued, 
and still under the care of Mr. Robbins. 
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Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during June, on the 4th and 18th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on June 6th and 20th. 
A flower of a very remarkable variety of Dendrobium Wardianum is 
sent from the collection of F. A. Rehder, Esq., The Avenue, Gipsy Hill, in 
which all the sepals and petals are light yellow with the usual rosy tips. It 
is from an imported plant, and Mr. Rehder believes it to be unique. It is 
certainly very striking and beautiful, but we are puzzled to account for such 
a marked departure from the type, and shall be much interested to know 
if it proves constant. It is provisionally named D. Wardianum aureum. 
‘We have received from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 
Enfield, a flower of the charming Cattleya Mendelii Mrs. Robert Tunstill, 
which received an Award of Merit from the R. H.S. at the Temple Show. 
It is of excellent shape, with a much crisped lip, and the colour pure white, 
with a broad, semicircular or horse-shoe shaped marking in front of the 
light yellow disc. It is dedicated to the wife of R. Tunstill, Esq., of 
Burnley, Leeds, an enthusiastic amateur of Orchids. 
American Gardening for April 27th announces :—“ Charles Maynard will, 
we understand, shortly take charge of Mr. George Schlegel’s garden and 
collection of Orchids.” Mr. Maynard will be well remembered on this side 
of the water as for some years in charge of the hybridising department 
of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., and the raiser of many striking novelties. 
Speaking of Hybrid Phalzenopses, Indian Gardening remarks in its issue 
for April 25th, that it may interest Orchidists to learn that Mr. Gisseliere, 
_ Superintendent of the Agri-Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Alipur, has 
__ been hybridising several of this genus, and will shortly be able to add a few 
Be yt new hybrids to our existing varieties of Phalaenopsis. 
