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up spikes, also the unusual sight of some Vanda pods, these being V. 
tricolor X Sanderiana, and V. Parishii x suavis. We hope seedlings will 
be obtained. The plants here were also thriving, and we noticed a beautiful 
example of Vanda Parishii Marriottiana with seven perfect leaves. 
In going through a collection like this, and especially in seeing the 
thriving condition of the seedlings, it is difficult to realize that the locality is 
so completely within the Metropolitan area, and the fact should be encourag- 
ing to others in similar circumstances, for it is certain that Orchids can be 
grown, and grown well, in such localities, when other conditions are 
suitable. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE GROWN OUT OF DOORS DURING 
SUMMER. 
Tue following interesting note on the open-air treatment of Dendrobium 
nobile during summer is given by Mr. W. P. Bound in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for November 2nd (p. 329) :—‘‘ On the occasion of a visit that I 
paid to the gardens of T. Taylor, Esq., Margery Hall, near Reigate, I 
noticed a number of aged plants of Dendrobium nobile just coming into 
profuse flower. On inquiry of the gardener, Mr. Seaman, he gave me 
information in regard to his method of getting D. nebile to flower at this 
season. The plants were grown in the ordinary manner, after flowering 
last February, till about the month of July, at which time the young 
growths were nearly made up. They were then placed in a Cool house for 
a few days to harden, and at the end of that month they were placed out of 
doors in the full sun, without any protection whatever, where they remained 
till the end of the month of September. The flower-buds got very forward, 
and on the plants being brought under glass, the former began to develop, 
and on October 22nd a good many of them had expanded, and the plants 
promised to be a mass of flower in about ten days later. The young 
growths are not injured by this out-of-doors treatment ; in fact the pseudo- 
bulbs are hard and well developed. I have often observed a few odd flowers 
at this season, especially on plants newly imported, but never before have I 
seen D. nobile flower as profusely in October as in the spring. Mr. Seaman 
will probably take these plants to one of the November meetings of the 
Royal Horticultural Society. I have also noted several fine plants of the 
Australian species, D. speciosum var. Hillii, pushing up their flower-buds. 
This plant grows freely under Mr. Seaman’s management, the same kind ot 
treatment being afforded after growth is finished as that found to answer 
with D. nobile, and the results are equally good every year, and the growth 
strong.” 
