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ONCIDIUM LEUCOCHILUM. 
the earliest months of last spring at the gardens of the Hon. Baron Dimsdale, 
Campfield Place, Herts, produced a flower- scape nine feet in length, with thirteen 
or fourteen lateral branches, varying from eighteen inches to four feet in their 
extension. Suspended from the roof of the stove, the immense length of the stem, 
and the gracefully flowing form of the branches, beautifully bedecked with their 
finely variegated flowers, created a picture at once impressive and fascinating to 
the most indifferent examiner. 
The plant above alluded to was 
imported from Guatemala, by Mr. 
Hockley Bunney, of the Kingsland 
nursery ; from whom it was afterwards 
purchased for the gentlemen in whose 
collection it so freely flowered. Mr. 
Dunsford, late gardener to Baron Dims- 
dale, kindly informs us that the fine 
thread-like roots of this plant induced 
him to bestow upon it a somewhat dif- 
ferent treatment from that given to the 
rest of the family. Instead of potting 
it in heath-soil, which is commonly employed for 
the other species, he reduced a quantity of moss, 
and, filling the pot nearly to the brim with 
drainage materials, placed the moss above them, 
in which the plant was fixed. By the application 
of a liberal supply of water while its develop- 
ments were proceeding, a remarkable degree of 
vigour was manifested, and the newly perfected 
pseudo-bulbs exceeded the former ones in size by 
almost one-half ; hence, the use of moss is now 
highly recommended. 
Specimens at Messrs. RollisonX Tooting, and Messrs. 
Loddiges', Hackney, have blossomed at various periods. 
The usual time of growing seems to be late in the autumn; 
and the flowers are developed in the months of January and 
February. Probably, when it has been longer beneath 
artificial culture, its accretions will be perfected at a 
more congenial season, and it will then prove an autumnal- 
flowering species. 
The annexed woodcut represents its habitude. 
