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PHALANOPSIS AMABILIS AT HEATON, BRADFORD. 
THE accompanying illustration represents a house of the _ beautiful 
Phalznopsis amabilis var. Rimestadiana in the establishment of Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, and is taken from a photograph 
kindly sent by them. The variety Rimestadiana is well known in gardens, 
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and the name appeared in 1goo (L. Lind. in Lindenta, xvi. p. 35, t. 736), 
though no character was mentioned by which it can be distinguished from 
the type, nor do we know of one now. It is said to have been introduced 
from Java by M. H. G. Rimestad, and a note was published from M. W. T. 
Lefebre, of the Botanic Garden, Java, suggesting that in Europe the plant 
would probably succeed in an Odontoglossum house, but this, as was to 
