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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[September, 1916. 



Cymbidium Humblotii, flowering in thz collection of O. O. IVrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, Lanes. 



CYMBIDIUM HUMBLOTII. 



THIS worthy representative of the 

 Madagascan Orchids is very rarely 

 seen in cultivation, perhaps on account 

 of the difficulty experienced in meeting its 

 cultural requirements, which appear to include 

 plenty of atmospheric moisture and a fairly 

 high temperature. Where Phalasnopses are 

 successfully managed, there also may C. 

 Humblotii be expected to succeed. 



Originally discovered by Mr. Humblot, it 

 first flowered in Europe in the collection of 

 Mr. C. Ingram, of Godalming, who exhibited 

 the plant at the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 June 7th, 1892, when a Botanical Certificate 

 was awarded. Little more was heard of this 

 species until June, 1907, when Mr. Peeters, of 

 Brussels, exhibited a plant at the Holland 

 House Show, when it obtained an Award of 

 Merit. Some five or six years ago Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co. received an importa- 



