March 4, 1886. ] 
JOURNAL OF E0RT10ULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
175 
tion of some kind has been proved, and it seems a hopeless task trying 
them until we obtiin a warmer climate, as some expect. Our best 
plan seems to be to persevere in their cultivation indoors, and we 
may yet be able to flower them in a small state and keep them within 
leaves 12 to 15 inches long, deep green, and wrinkled on the upper 
surface and silvery underneath. The flowers are 4 or 5 inches long 
and as many broad at the mouth, white tinged with rose, becoming 
deep towards the base, and together forming a glorious mass. R. 
Fig. 29 .—Dendeobium luteolum. 
the desired limits. Planted out, however, where they can have 
plenty of head room they form enormous bushes, giving an annual 
display of flowers, ranging in colour from the most intense scarlet to 
pure white, many of them a'so emitting a most delicious fragrance. 
R. argenteum is said to grow as a tree 40 feet high, with magnificent 
arboreum has a much more compact habit, studded with bunches of 
intense scarlet flowers. Others, such as R. Nuttalli barbatum, R. 
Edgeworthi, R. Falconeri, R. Aucklandi, and R. Thompsoni, will 
soon follow, when we propose drawing attention to their merits in 
the order they appear.—M. S. 
