THE ORCHID REVIEW. 101% 
BULBOPHYLLUM DAYANUM. 
Tus rare and very remarkable species has just flowered in the collection 
of W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., West Hill, Hessle, E. Yorks (gr. Mr. Barker), 
from whom we have received a flower. The species was originally described 
by Reichenbach in 1865 (Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 434), from a plant which 
was introduced by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. from Burma, and flowered 
in the collection of J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham. It afterwards bloomed in 
the collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., from the same source, and was 
figured in the Refuguim Botanicum (t. 115), though Reichenbach then 
suggested Borneo as the native country, because none of the collectors of 
plants who had ‘had their servants collecting, and partly, nearly, or 
totally destroying Orchids in that Eldorado of Orchids,” Burma, had again 
met with it. This idea, however, was erroneous, for the Rev. C. Parish 
shortly afterwards sent it from Moulmein; it flowered at Kew, and was 
figured in the Botanical Magazine in 1874 (t. 6119). Somewhat recently it 
has been re-introduced, and flowered at Glasnevin in July, 1896, and also 
in the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, who exhibited it at a 
meeting of the R.H.S. on January 12th, 1897, when it received a Botanical 
Certificate. The plant is very dwarf and bears large flowers, which are 
remarkable for having the sepals and petals fringed with long hairs. The 
sepals are light green streaked and spotted with purple, and the petals and 
lip darker ; these details, however, being subject to variation, according to 
the figures. It is a very interesting botanical species. 
KR. A. KK. 
AN AMATEUR’S EXPERIENCES. 
By Eustace F. CLARKE, TEIGNMOUTH. 
I UNDERSTAND that the early experiences of an amateur Orchid grower, 
starting with a very few plants, and with almost everything to learn, may 
be of some slight interest, and possibly afford some encouragement to 
others who may now be in a similar position. 
I have always been much interested in gardening, especially since I 
have had greater opportunity for gratifying my taste. Before coming to 
Teignmouth, however, my attention was mainly given to the outdoor 
garden, more particularly to Alpine plants and bulbs. 
In the autumn of 1893 I chanced to read an article in Gardening 
Illustrated, from which I gathered that the culture of certain kinds of 
Orchids was easy, and that a few could be grown for some years 
successfully in an ordinary greenhouse, provided that they had proper 
attention .given to them, and I was induced by an advertisement 
of the Liverpool Horticultural Company to write, asking them to send me 
