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Cattleya house, and could not then suggest a cause. We should like to 

 hear the opinion of others who may have met with a similar difficulty. 



A Saprophytic Orchid.— A common Orchid of India (Didymoplexis 

 pallens) is just now in bloom. It is said that it is always found growing 

 under the shade of bamboo trees, and lives on the decaying vegetable 

 matter found beneath those trees. We saw a specimen recently growing 

 luxuriantly under the shade of a banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis), there 

 being no bamboo trees within sight. — Indian Gardening, 1904, p. 3S8. 



An illustration showing the house of La?lio-cattleya X elegans at The 

 Woodlands, Streatham, appears in The Garden for October 1st (p. 233). 



A photograph of an interesting and pretty hybrid between Paphiopedilum 

 insigne Sanderas and P. tonsum is sent by F. H. Moore, Esq., Royal 

 Infirmary, Liverpool. Mr. Moore remarks: "The seed was given me by 

 Mr. Rappart, and I understood that it came from Mr. Ball. This is the 

 first seedling of my own raising that I have flowered, but I have several 

 Dendrobes which ought to flower next spring. It will be a variety of P. X 

 Krishna, a plant which was raised in the collection of H. Graves, Esq., 

 Orange, New Jersey, and flowered in 1S95. 



Respecting the interesting seedling Odontoglossums between O. 

 maculatum and O. Rossii, whose history has already been given (0. R.. vii., 

 p. 277 ; viii., p. 240), Mr. Moore remarks : " Only one of the Odontoglossum 

 seedlings from the crossing you made here some years ago remains, and it 

 does not get on— in fact, I find the natural hybrid O. X aspersum a bad 

 doer with me." This seedling must now be four years old, and we hope Mr. 

 Moore will succeed in flowering it, when, as already remarked, it should 

 prove the parentage of the natural hybrid O. X Humeanum. 



Mr. J. Smith, gardener to R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, 

 Camberwell, writes : " Our plants of Cattleya Bowringiana have done well 

 this year, and I have one that will be open in a few days with thirty-four 

 flowers on the spike. I do not remember seeing one with that number 



Exchange of Duplicates.— The question of setting apart a small 

 space monthly in which amateurs could offer their duplicate seedlings and 

 other plants, with at the same time a list of desiderata, has been raised 

 several times, and a correspondent again calls attention to the question. He 

 thinks it would be useful to many amateurs, and proposes that the list 

 should be kept apart from the body of the work, so as not to be bound up 

 with it, and invites the opinions of other amateurs on the subject. He sees 



