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Prinsep recommends would be likely to attain a “good old age,” say 
from twenty-five to fifty years. 
There is a sentence in Mr. Prinsep’s note which rather puzzles me. 
pleted its growth, and without having undergone any rest whatsoever ’ 
then I will confess myself a “ flow believer but if he says distinctly 
that he can and does grow and flower it on its current season’s growth 
He says, “ Some Orchid growers are slow to believe that it is possible to 
make growths aud flower them in one season.” If Mr. Prinsep means to 
say that Dendrobium nobile will flower freely immediately it has com- 
before the end of November each year, then I will grant that Mr. Prinsep 
achieves that which few people achieved before. On the other hand, if 
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