THE ORCHID WORLD. 
Vol. I. JULY, 1911. No. 10. 
NOTES. 
Dendrobium crepidatum album. — This 
deciduous drooping species produces its 
flowers from the nodes of the leafless stems. 
The tips of the sepals, petals, and lip are 
usually tipped with pink, but a pure white 
variety has just flowered in the collection of 
Capt. Robert Twiss, Bird Hill, Limerick. 
We do not remember having seen or even 
heard of an albino form of this species, and, 
therefore, have pleasure in recording it. 
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Dr. Harry Bolus. — Orchidology has sus- 
tained a loss by the recent death of Dr. Bolus, 
of Sherwood, Kenilworth, Cape Town. Born 
in this country in 1834, he went out to South 
Africa when quite young, and his special 
study of South African Orchids enabled him 
to write several works on the Orchids of the 
Cape Peninsula. In the year 1873 he became 
a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and recently 
the University of South Africa conferred 
upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Science. 
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Cattleya gigas alba. — This unique and 
extremely valuable Orchid has often been 
alluded to as one of the rarest and finest 
varieties of any species of Cattleya, and the 
remaining portions of the old flower spikes 
prove that it has been a particularly free 
bloomer, even in its native country. It was 
figured on page 187 of the May issue of this 
VOL I. 
journal, and our readers will be greatly in- 
terested in hearing that this superb plant has 
since passed into the well-known collection 
of Messrs. Stuart Low and Co., Bush Hill 
Park, Enfield. 
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Orchids at Bridge Hall. — During the last 
few months Mr. O. O. Wrigley's Orchid 
Houses have been a veritably magnificent 
sight with the splendid show of bloom. An 
excellent series of photographs, some of 
which we hope to reproduce in the near 
future, has been sent by Mr. Rogers, who so 
successfully cultivates the Orchids at Bridge 
Hall. The collection of Lycastes is one of 
the finest in the country, and gives one a sur- 
prising idea of the great number of varieties 
of this cool-house species. The plants are in 
perfect health, the magnificent pure-white 
variety carrying, this year, no less than 1 7 
large flowers. 
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Cypripedium Thunbergii. — No. 4 of the 
Kew Bulletin for this year contains an 
interesting note by Mr. R. A. Rolfe on this 
Cypripedium. As the species has been 
figured for the Botanical Magazine, and 
there was some doubt as to the correctness of 
this determination, application was made to 
the authorities of the Rijks Herbarium, 
Leiden, for the loan of the original specimen 
of C. Thunbergii. An examination and 
comparison of this specimen with other 
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