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about three weeks they were all dead.”” The result was unfortunate, and 
we believe that this cross has not yet been successfully raised. 
We also find a very interesting account of the celebrated collection of 
M. Pescatore, at Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Paris (page 535), from which we 
may extract the concluding paragraph :—‘‘M. Pescatore’s collection of 
Orchids consisted, in 1848, of 640 plants; these comprised 350 species and 
varieties. Since then it has been augmented, more especially by the 
collection of M. Quesnel, of Havre; so that there are now upwards of 2,000 
plants, and the number of species and varieties amount to 700. The plants 
are grown on pieces of peat soil, in vases and pots placed on the beds and 
shelves ; on pieces of suspended wood, or on the branchy trunks of trees. 
All the Orchids were in an excellent state of growth; their good condition 
and vigour do great credit to the intelligence and skill of Mr. James Craig, 
who is specially entrusted with their cultivation. In this splendid collection 
166 different species had flowered between the first of January and the end 
of July, 1848.” 
Orchids were evidently increasing in popularity, for among numerous 
other notes, of sales, cultural matters, &c., we find a note entitled ‘‘ Orchids 
for the Million,” by ‘ Dodman,” who suspects that “‘the time is not 
far distant when we shall have many of the more easily cultivated Orchids 
(Dendrobium nobile for instance) the Cypripediums, &c., &c., going about 
in the baskets of the itinerant flower sellers in London, and as easily 
grown as Cactus speciosissimus.” | 
No less than nineteen Orchids were figured in the Botanical Magazine 
during this year, most of them being already known, but two were interesting 
novelties, both of which flowered at Kew, namely the handsome Miltonia 
spectabilis var. purpureo-violacea (t. 4425), and Eriopsis rutidobulbon 
(t. 4437), sent from New Grenada by Purdie. 
(To be continued.) 
PHAIOCYMBIDIUM x CHARDWARENSE., 
Ir may be remembered that last year a very remarkable hybrid from the 
collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water, was exhibited 
under the above name (O.R., x., pp. 117, 190). Two flowers have now been 
sent by Mr. Moore’s present gardener, Mr. W. Page, with the following 
note :—* The enclosed is a supposed hybrid between Phaius Wallichii x 
Cymbidium giganteum. It has been shown ata R. H. S. meeting, and there 
was some doubt as to its parentage by those who saw it there, but according 
to the records of our seedlings, it must be correct, because it is the only 
Phaius cross recorded, and Mr. Moore has had no other Phaius in his 
collection until recently. The plant, so far as I can see, is identical with 
