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plants. Cypripediums flourish well, with the exception Of. Kn: 
vexillarium, which leads an extenuated existence, and perishes in a 
year or two—the same would probably be the case with C. Fairrieanum. 
Some plants reputed, I believe, to be “ miffy” in England, grow luxuriantly, 
such as Pachystoma Thompsonianum and Bulbophyllum barbigerum. Ina 
word it may be said that the experience in Orchid growing in Italy is 
generally the reverse of what it is in England. 
Some of the finest plants in my collection are :—Dendrobium taurinum 
with several stems, three metres high; Arachnanthe Lowii, one metre 
eighty cm.; Arachnanthe Cathcartii, four stems, each one metre—this 
grows on a raft suspended horizontally from the roof, from which the 
growths hang pendant; many pieces have been taken off, or it would 
have been much larger; Stauropsis lissochiloides, one metre ten cm. ; 
Angraecum superbum, sixty cm.; Cattleya Sanderiana, thirty-four bulbs ; 
Lelia X amanda, forty-one bulbs ; Lelia X euspatha, twenty bulbs— 
portions of the last three have also been detached from time to time; 
Coelogyne Sanderiana, thirty-seven bulbs; C. asperata, thirty bulbs. 
The notes I hope will be of interest to readers of the Orchid Review. 
Florence, Italy. | H. J. Ross. 
OBITUARY. 
ANOTHER veteran horticulturist has passed away, M. Jean Linden, who 
died peacefully at his residence in Brussels on January 12th, in his 81st 
year. He was born at Luxembourg in 1817, but removed to Belgium, 
and was one of the first students at the Faculty of Science in the newly- 
founded University of Brussels. In 1835 he was entrusted with a scientific 
mission to South America, and during the next ten years he explored 
various parts of Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, and Central America, during 
which time he paid considerable attention to Orchids and other plants. 
He finally returned to Europe in 1845, and placed in Dr. Lindley’s hands 
a collection of dried Orchids with notes on their habitats. 
In the following year Lindley issued his “‘ Orchidacee Lindeniane ; or 
notes upon a collection of Orchids formed in Columbia and Cuba, by 
M. J. Linden,” a small 8 vo. of 28 pages, with six pages of introduction, 
containing 143 species, of which 76, or rather more than half, were 
described for the first time. They included such interesting plants as 
Odontoglossum luteopurpureum, hastilabium and odoratum; Masdevallia 
coccinea, triangularis, cucullata, and Schlimii; Maxillaria nigrescens and 
luteo-alba; and Sobralia violacea; together with three new genera, 
Uropedium Lindeni, Chondrorhyncha rosea; and Solenidium racemosum. 
The plants were accompanied by some interesting notes respecting their 
