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16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
varieties superbum and giganteum. Of the many plants in flower scarea ' 
two are alike. 
The beautiful and floriferous Selenipediums are favourites here. The 
rare S. x Saundersianum is pushing up a flower spike with two buds. It was 
raised by crossing S. caudatum and S. Schlimii, by Mr. Wm. Marshall, of — 
Enfield, and dedicated to the late Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, “the Macenas — 
of horticulture of his time,” and for many years treasurer of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. What a pretty and delicate flower is S. x leucor- 
rhodum! A plant here has three strong spikes with several blooms open. 
This variety, with S. x Schréderz, S. x cardinale, and S. x calurum, are 
among the best of the genus. : 
Next we come to the Dendrobiums, one of the most beautiful genera of © 
the Orchid family, and of which there is a good representative collection. 
Amongst rare forms we may mention:—D. lituiflorum candidum, a most : 
beautiful and distinct variety, the flowers pure white with a pale yellow disc’ 
to the lip; D. Parishii albens, with nearly white flowers, also very rare; D. 
Devonianum candidulum, represented by two healthy plants, has white 
flowers, with two orange-yellow blotches on the disc of the lip; and D. 
superbum Burkei, one of the most beautiful of white Dendrobiums, with the 
disc of the lip light purple. D. Harveyanum is a pretty and very remark-— 
able species, allied to D. Brymerianum, but with smaller flowers, and the 
petals fimbriated like the lip. 
Many superb varieties of Dendrobium nobile are grown, as nobilius @ 4 
splendid specimen with about thirty bulbs, nearly three feet in length), 
elegans, Tautzianum, albiflorum, intermedium, etc., also the remarkable 
sports from nobile—Cooksonianum, Tollianum, and the Burford variety, 
which has the inner halves of the lateral sepals marked with deep amethyst 
purple, like the lip. ' 
By the time this is in print a number of seedling Dendrobiums raised 
at Burford will be in flower. One of the most remarkable results yet 
chronicled in the genus was obtained here, by crossing D. x Ainsworthii — 
with the pollen of D. Findlayanum, and vice versd. The seedlings began to 
flower in 1877. The first had a purple disc, and was named by the late _ 
Prof. Reichenbach, D. x melanodiscus, but the second had a deep yellow 
disc, and was called D. x chrysodiscus. Others from the same batch have. 
been called D. x Juno, D. x Luna, etc. So different are the forms that 00 _ 
one would ever suspect them to have the same parentage. { 
Other pretty and interesting hybrids, raised by crossing D. Linawianum 
with the pollen of D. Wardianum, were named, by the same author, D. X _ 
chlorostele and D. x chlorostele xanthocentrum. 
Another hybrid raised here by crossing D. Kingianum with the pollen of 
D. speciosum flowered for the first time in the spring of last year. It is 
quite distinct, but its merits cannot be judged until the plant becomes : 
stronger. 
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