Dendrobium Spectabile. 
A very rare and most beautiful Orchid, with white, yellow and 
crimson blossom. Very few plants could with difficulty be secured 
from its native country, and it will always be a valuable variety and 
worthy of a place in any collection. 
Lot 
623 One established plant 
We Have Re-discovered 
THE LOST ORCHID, 
LAELIA JONGHEANA, 
and offer a large and distinct lot of healthy plants. A large- 
flowered and handsome early spring flowering L,aelia. 
The brilliant amethyst and golden yellow blossoms measure 4 to 5 
inches across, and are borne two to five on stout spikes. 
It has just received a First-Class Certificate of Merit from the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society for flowers sent by Hicks Arnold, 
Esq., of New York City. 
A Grand Acquisition to the Florist. Easy to Grow. 
Professor Reichenbach, in describing this splendid Orchid in the 
Gardeners' Chronicle, March 30th, 1872, page 425, says: 
LAELIA JONGHEANA. 
Here you have a first-class novelty. " Cattleya 
Mossise and labiata have according to my taste, at least a very danger 
ous rival .... of the most brilliant amethyst color, as bright as 
that of Vanda teres itself, the petals very broad, a little crisp ; the lip 
with pallid amethyst side lacinise, yellow on the anterior part outside 
and wholly yellow inside ; the exterior laciniae whitish with a broad 
amethyst border ; also on the anterior border of side lacinise, beautifully 
crisp and denticulate, seven high keels of darkest orange in the center 
of the lip, longer than the arched whitish column and all veins of the 
side laciniae, with radiating keels inside. The wonderful beauty of this 
grand flower is based on its purest color. . . The violaceo-amethyst 
border of the wonderfully wavy and denticulate lip adds the crowning 
beauty." 
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