200 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JULY, 1909. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
A House full of this chaste and beautiful variety would be a sight worth 
seeing. Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, of Tunbridge Wells, write to us as 
follows :—‘‘ We are sending two photographs of a house of Dendrobium 
nobile virginale, one taken in April, 1908, the next in April, tgo9. The 
plants are the same, but this year they are much finer, owing to their 
flowering on much stronger bulbs. There are over 200 plants in bloom in 
each photograph, all of which were raised from one seed pod, besides 
several hundred others which were sold previous to flowering, and we have 
Fig. 15. DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 
not had a single coloured form among them. They are much more vigorous 
than the parent plant, and have larger flowers, which are finer in substance, 
and, as will be seen by the photograph, much more free in flowering. The 
parent plant was fertilised in March, 1903, and the seed sown in April, 
1904.” 
We have selected the later photograph for reproduction on the opposite 
page, though it is impossible to do justice to such a fine lot of plants in the 
space at command. The variety, however, is now well known, and the aid 
of a little imagination will enable our readers to realise what the effect of 
such a display must have been, even if they had not the good fortune to 
