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The Odontoglossums are grown in winter in a lean-to north house, 
adjoining the Dendrobiums. The Masdevallias occupy a part of this house 
and are now a fine show of bloom. Noteworthy among them at present are 
two fine pieces of M. Harryana Gravesiz, the white variety. The Odonto- 
glossums number nearly one thousand plants, among them are some fine 
species and natural hybrids, many fine O. crispum and Pescatorei varieties 
are now in flower, with others, such as X Ruckerianum, x Andersonianum, 
cirrhosum, Sanderianum, x lanceans Gravesianum, xX Josephine, &c., &c. 
The plants are grown in small pots, in a mixture of chopped peat and 
sphagnum, with good drainage. The temperature in winter ranges from 
48° to 55°. Canvas, raised on frame work eighteen inches above the glass, 
is used for shading. During the hot summer months the plants are plunged 
in ashes in cold frames located in a shady situation. ‘Canvas sashes are 
used through the day, but these are replaced by others covered with wire 
netting in the evenings. The plants are syringed overhead morning and 
evening, and in this manner usually stand the summer months in good 
condition. 
DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS ALBUM. 
This is a very charming little Dendrobium, an albino of the well-known 
D. transparens. The flowers are spotless white, without a trace of colour 
anywhere. It was described in 1889 (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, 11. p. 94), 
when it originally appeared in the collection of Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, 
Burton-on-Trent, under the charge of Mr. Hamilton, from whom we have 
now received a spray of its beautiful flowers. It is evidently very rare, for 
we find no record of any other plant, though the species has long been in 
cultivation, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 4663) as long ago 
as 1852. It is a native of the Tropical Himalayas, and appeared among 
some plants which had been imported by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., 
of St. Albans. 
PHALAZNOPSIS PARISHII. 
A plant of this lovely little gem is now flowering at Kew. Although but 
a few inches high, its raceme of small white and purple flowers gives it a 
most attractive appearance. Singularly enough, the large purple front lobe 
of the lip is articulated at the base and mobile, in which respect it differs 
from most others of the genus. It also bears four very long bristles at the 
base and a crescent of short ones in front of these. The side-lobes are 
minute and yellow. It is a native of Moulmein and was described in 1865, 
