SEPTEMBER, I912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 273. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE RAPPARTIANUM. 
THE Orchids which succeed best under the conditions I can offer are 
undoubtedly Dendrobiums of the nobile section, and my collection includes 
most of the best varieties. I send you a photograph of one which is little 
known, and, in my estimation, is one of the most beautiful of them all, both 
from its distinctive shape and exquisite colouring. It first appeared in the 
collection of Mr. D. Rappart, of Liscard, who was fortunate enough to- 
flower several Orchids which were unique, and which still exist under bis 
name. Dendrobium nobile Rappartianum received an Award of Merit from 
the Manchester Orchid Committee when it was first shown, and my friend 
Fig. 35. DENDROBIUM NOBILE RAPPARTIANUM. 
gave me a piece of it, which I have assiduously propagated since, and until 
a recent show of the local Horticultural Society, when a fine specimen, 
magnificently flowered, was exhibited by a well-known Liverpool amateur, 
I thought I had “a corner” in its possession. The flower photographed is 
five inches across without spreading, but is, perhaps, abnormally large 
because it is a single one. It is waxy white, except the tips of the petals 
and the unusually large dark blotch on the lip. 
Francis H. MOORE. 
Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. 
