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plant, which must be very effective, though the flower sent is slightly 
below the average size. 
Four beautiful varieties of Cattleya Schrodere are sent from the 
collection of Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno, including the 
chaste C. S. alba. A second is about typical, a third similar but of 
exceptional size, while the remaining one is a very pretty light pink form. 
All have the characteristic orange disc and are deliciously fragrant. They 
were imported two years ago. 
A good C. Triane which has been in flower a month, and a fine 
Lelia purpurata with a pink stain along the centre of the petals are also 
sent, together with Odontoglossum Hallii and its fine variety magnificum, 
All are superbly grown, 
A very pretty form of Odontoglossum xX Ruckerianum is sent from 
the collection of John W. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool, the flowers 
being rose-coloured with very few spots. 
A fine flower of the handsome Dendrobium X Venus is sent from the 
collection of W. S. M’Millan, Esq., of Maghull, Liverpool, being one of 
which a painting has been made by Mr. Mitchell. 
A pretty hybrid Dendrobium is sent from the collection of F. Hardy, 
Esq., of Ashton-on-Mersey, by Mr. Stafford. It was raised from D. X 
Cassiope @ and D. Bensone ¢, and is fairly intermediate in character, 
though it preserves some of the light yellow colour and the disc of the 
latter. If it retains the free growing character of the former it is likely to 
be a decided acquisition, as D. Benson soon deteriorates under cultivation. 
Several very beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of 
W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst, including O. crispum 
“The Queen,” a very fine white with a single blotch in front of the lip’s 
crest, taken from a racene of thirteen flowers; O. c. Duchess equally 
fine, with the sepals and petals suffused with light rosy purple and bearing 
numerous small darker spots, and O. c. ‘‘The Prince” much like O. c. 
guttatum, but with the petals wholly white. 
Two good forms of O. X Wilckeanum are also enclosed, and a series 
of half-a-dozen O. cirrhosum, together with a noble form of Cattleya 
Mendelii. and a raceme of the beautiful yellow Spathoglollis gracilis. 
Several good brightly-coloured forms of Cattleya Triane are sent by 
Mr. R. Jones, Barford Hall Gardens, Warwick, one of which it has been 
suggested is a natural hybrid, though we believe it to be only a variety, 
as no other Cattleya is known to grow intermixed with C. Triane. 
