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NOTES. 



Vanilla aromatica. — Between three and 

 four hundred flowers have recently been 

 borne upon a specimen plant of this species 

 in the establishment of Messrs. Julius Roehrs 

 Co., Rutherford, New Jersey. This collection 

 now occupies seventeen large houses. 



DendROBIUM ImthURNIL — Sir Everard 

 im Thurn has informed the Kcw Bull din 

 that this plant was found near the Erakor 

 Lagoon, Efate Island, New Hebrides, and 

 not, as stated in error, in the Solomon 

 Islands. The species is allied to D. anten- 

 natum, but is more robust in every respect. 

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Sphagnum Moss. — Many interesting 

 species and varieties were included in the 33 

 pans of growing mosses which Mr. Hugh 

 Danton exhibited at the recent International 

 Show. The Sphagnum moss, so necessary 

 to Orchid growers, which thrives so luxuri- 

 antly in many of the western counties of 

 our island, is rare in Hertfordshire, and 

 imported specimens show their aversion to 

 the climate, for try which way he could, Mr. 

 Danton was unable to make it grow in a 

 satisfactory manner. 



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OdoNTOGLOSSUM GRANDE. — This is the 

 largest of the many species of Odontoglossum 

 and, with the possible exception of Od. 

 crispum, the most beautiful of the whole 

 genus. A batch of well-flowered plants is a 

 sight worth seeing. The individual flowers 

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measure from 5 to 7 inches across the petals, 

 and are of a rich golden yellow with chestnut- 

 brown markings on the basal half of the 

 sepals and petals ; the lip is creamy-white 

 marked more or less with brown. The thick 

 yellow crest of the hp looks like a tin)- wax 

 doll from which the plant has derived the 

 popular name cdf "Baby Orchid." — Horticul- 

 ture, USA. 



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Orchid Culture in America.— Orchids 

 were never more popular than they arc at 

 present ; this is due, state Messrs. Lager and 

 Hurrell, of New Jersey, to the fact that they 

 are, without question, the handsomest, the 

 strangest, and the most lasting flowers in all 

 the vegetable kingdom. Most private collec- 

 tions have some representative of this queenly 

 class of plants, while the florists are well con- 

 \ inced of the fact that, to keep pace with the 

 times, they must grow Orchids, the demand 

 for which is daily increasing. The climate of 

 the United States is more favourable for 

 some species of Orchids than that of Europe, 

 as a whole, notably for Orchids found in 

 Central and South America. Cattleyas, such 

 as Trianae, Mendelii, chocoensis, and Perci- 

 valiana will finish their growth and start 

 another, sometimes two, all of which will be 

 fully developed and ready for the flowering- 

 season. European growers would look 

 astonished at such culture ; here it is neces- 

 sary and profitable. Messrs. Lager and 

 Hurrell have recently issued an attractive and 

 well illustrated Orchid catalogue. 



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