THE ORCHID REVIEW, 3 
Dendrobium aureum cinnamomeum is a distinct and pretty variety of 
this handsome winter-flowering Dendrobium, which is characterised by 
having the sepals and petals suffused with copper-colour or light cinnamon. 
It has appeared in the collection of F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on- 
Mersey, among recently imported plants, and is now flowering for the first 
time. 
DIES ORCHIDIAN/. 
‘DEAR ARGuUS,—A Happy New Year to you, from one of your readers, and 
many of them. Goon ard prosper. Continue to encourage the good and 
denounce the bad; to point out the paths which make for progress in the 
culture of our favourites, and generally continue the enlightened policy 
which has made the Orchid Review a power in the land. Those five 
completed volumes occupy an honoured place on our shelves. May the 
work flourish still more abundantly in the future, and enlist the support of 
all lovers of these beautiful plants, which it so richly deserves.” 
It is very kind of my correspondent, and I reciprocate his amiable 
sentiments, but don’t give me all the credit for those five volumes. I have 
done a little, it is true, and am glad to find that my efforts meet with 
approval. As to the future, I hope still to contribute my share, and shall 
be glad of the support of all my readers, many of whom could communicate 
valuable facts which come within the range of their observation. Send 
them along, and not make the mistake of supposing them of no importance, 
or valuable information may be lost. The Review has been very well 
supported in this direction during the past year, and I hope to see it 
increasingly so in the future. 
In this connection I may allude to the remarkable specimen of Cattleya 
x Hardyana, figured as the frontispiece to the last volume. It is extremely 
rare to find such vigorous root action in an Orchid, yet that is one of the 
great secrets of success, and as the treatment adopted has been recorded, 
I hope to see other specimens of the kind in future. The photograph 
supplies a splendid object-lesson. 
It also throws an interesting side light on the old question of manure 
for Orchids, which has again come so prominently to the front. Orchids 
must have food of some kind, call it manure or what you will, and 
Mr. Hamilton, at page 359, brings forward scme interesting evidence on 
the subject. But admitting, for the sake of argument, that manure in 
