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and an aggregate of forty-two flowers, twenty-four and eighteen respectively.” 
It is a very fine example, but the photograph is unfortunately not suitable for 
reproduction. 
American Gardening states that “Mr. William Jacobson, lately with 
Oakes Ames, North-Eastern Massachusetts, is now Orchid grower to Dr. 
J. F. Schaffer, Pittsburg, Pa.” 
Dendrobium Phalznopsis is now in great beauty in the collection of 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield. Mr. Statter writes :—‘* We have 
the finest lot of this Orchid in bloom you can imagine. It is the finest 
Orchid ever introduced, without doubt. Although it likes a temperature of 
-go to.100 degrees when growing, yet the flowers can be worn ina lady’s 
dress three or four nights in succession without fading, and for decorative 
purposes under electric light it has no equal.” 
“The Orchid Hunt” is the title of a play now being produced at tae 
New Gaiety Theatre in the Strand. A daily contemporary remarks :-— 
“The opening act is laid in Kew Gardens, where a school for the study of 
the history and cultivation of Orchids is in session. The rivalry of two 
amateur cultivators of Orchids—a great English statesman and the French 
Minister for Foreign Affairs—leads to a wager as to which of them shall 
secure the most perfect specimen of a certain plant. Collectors are sent to 
Peru to search for something of great beauty, and fortune appears to favour 
England, until the wiles of a pretty French girl secure the prize. With 
this she lands at Nice, where the second Act takes place. In the end, 
however, a humble and amusing English gardener — impersonated by 
Mr. Edmund Payne—produces a still finer specimen that he has quietly 
grown at Kew.” 
BEETLECUTE.—Messrs. Valls & Co., 16, Coleman Street, London, E.C., 
have just been awarded a medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for the 
insecticide known by the above name, in recognition of its efficacy as a 
destroyer of Cockroaches, Ants, and Woodlice. It is said to have been used 
at Chiswick with great success. Particulars of the remedy are given in our 
advertisement pages. 
Attention is also called to an announcement of an importation of Orchids 
from the mountains of Central Sumatra, which should contain some 
interesting things. 
Cattleya X Hardyana var. Richard Ashworth is a very beautiful variety 
which has just flowered in the collection of R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, 
Manchester (gr. Mr. Pidsley). The sepals and petals are white, and the 
front of the lip has a white border fully three lines broad, which grades 
