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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER . 
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suffused with a soft delicate purple tint, with a few slightly deeper 
purple streaks, and faint green veins underlying the purple 
suffusion. There are also some dark dots at the base running into 
the veins. The tip is pale green, the margin has a number of 
white downy hairs, and the inner surface is also covered with a 
slight tomentum. The lower sepals are small and greenish. The 
petals are 2f inches long by five-eighths inch broad at the widest 
part near the points. They are slightly deflexed, partaking some¬ 
what of the C. hirsutissimum character, but very distinct in colour, 
soft purple, green at the base, with fine dark spots at the base, 
and dark marginal hairs. The lip is suggestive of C. superbiens in 
shape and colouring, but is a distinct shade, and is dotted and 
rounded, margined with white, rich dark crimson, with chocolate 
spots. The petals are very dark, with three dark dots on the upper 
margin, the lower half at the base being of a peculiar transparent 
green with a few dots ; the lip is very dark, and the whole surface 
of the flower has a polished shining appearance that in a bright 
light is very effective. It is undoubtedly a grand acquisition. 
Another hybrid from C. purpuratum and C. Spicerianum is also 
very promising, but the flower is not quite expanded. 
Seasonable Hints. 
Tiie pseudo-bulb3 of Uendrobium Brymerianum have attained a 
length of 18 inches in baskets suspended beneath the roof. The 
Fig. 65.—ANGE2ECUM. SAN DERIAN UM. 
suffused with purple. The leaves are long and narrow, regularly 
and prettily marbled on light green. The great charm of the 
hybrid is in the peculiarly soft and pleasing purple tinting, which 
is quite unique. 
A more pretentious beauty is a hybrid from C. calophyllum, 
crossed with C. oenanthum superbum, and therefore possessing a 
most interesting parentage, both the forms named being themselves 
hybrids, C. calophyllum from C. barbatnm and C. venustum, and 
C. oenanthum superbum from C. insigne Maulei and C. Harrisianum. 
C. oenanthum superbum is generally regarded as one of the finest 
hybrids ever produced ; but some may probably consider the new¬ 
comer as, in some respects, an improvement upon that in richness 
of colouring and general appearance. The dorsal sepal is bread, 
growths are firm, and only sufficient water should be given to keep 
the foliage fresh and their pseudo-bulbs plump. Make every 
attempt to ripen them thoroughly by placing them in a temperature 
5° lower than the one in which they have been grown, where the 
atmosphere is dry and the plants can be fully exposed to light. 
The flower buds will soon appear if they are not already visible 
near the top of ripened pseudo-bulbs. The current season’s growths 
must be well ripened and the plants allowed to enjoy a lengthened 
season of rest after flowering. Next season’s flowers and good 
growth largely depend upon a thorough and complete season of 
rest. Dendrobiums frequently degenerate through being kept in 
heat and consequently in a growing condition more or less through¬ 
out the year. 
