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DENDROBIUM TAURINUM. 
near the top of the stems, and a single raceme will have perfect flowers upon it for 
a month or six weeks. Indeed, the species blooms most immoderately. The 
flowers are large, of a yellowish green or dull cream colour, beautifully margined 
and tinted with purplish lilac. The lip, column, and twisted petals, constitute a 
figure, which has been correctly likened to a bull's head, and from which the 
specific name has been derived. 
It is cultivated, like the larger kinds of Dendrobia, in a moist summer heat, and 
a drier and cooler winter atmosphere, being potted in a mixture of rough heath- 
mould and potsherds. Propagation is managed by cutting off one of the stems in 
the winter, and potting it separately. We annex a wood-cut, exhibiting a portrait 
of the entire plant. 
