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the Veitchian nursery at Chelsea. In this case Dendrobium 
jiponicum was the seed plant and D. aureuin supplied the pollen, 
the result being a peculiar intermixing of characters and a most 
useful hybrid. The flowers are nearly white, the lip having a basal 
purple blotch, and they possess a delicious fragrance resembling 
Violets. In habit the plant is more like D. aureum, strong growing 
and most floriferous. A Dendrobium with such characters was not 
likely to be disregarded by such a close obseiver as Mr. Seden, and 
he soon utilised it as a seed parent, a cross withD. nobile producing 
the beautiful D. euosmum and the variety leucopterum. In the 
original form the sepals and petals are white, tipped with pale 
purple, the lip having a deep purple central blotch. The exquisite 
fragrance of D. endocharis is here combined with the floral attrac¬ 
tions of D. nobile, the result being all that could be desired in a 
Dendrobium. In the variety leucopteium, shown by Baron 
Schroder and certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society 
April 9th, 1889, the flowers are of medium size, very delicate and 
beautiful, the sepals and petals narrow and white, the lip long, 
crimson in the centre, the apical half pure white. It is oc slender 
growth, but free floweiing. Another variety named roseura has 
also been noted. 
Coming now to a more recent production we have in Dendro¬ 
bium Juno (fig. 13), shown at the last meeting of the R.H.S. 
Orchid Committee (Jan. 14th, 1890), by Sir Trevor Lawrence, an 
exceedingly handsome hybrid well meriting the certificate awarded. 
It was raised from a cross between D. Wardianum and D. Linaw- 
ianum (mondiforme), and again we have to remark the str.inge 
fusion of characters that occur in so many hybrid Orchids. The 
flowers are of excellent shape, the sepals and petals broad, but 
especially the latter, white, deeply tinged with rich crimson from 
the apex towards the base. The lip is nearly circular, having a 
maroon central blotch bounied by a yellowish tinge, then a white 
zone and a purplish marginal band. In form and colouring this 
will rank with the best of the artificially raised Dendrobiums. 
Dendrobium Leechianum, of which a flower is represented in 
I'i) resembles D. Ainsworthi, but is much larger, the sepals and 
petals being tinged with bright purplish crimson, like some fine 
varieties of D. nobile. The lip is large, open, and marked with 
very rich crimson in the throat, the tip being also tinged with a 
similar colour but somewhat lighter. The petals are broad with a 
wavy margin, and the whole flower has an appearance of great sub¬ 
stance. A great additional recommendation is the sweet fragrance 
it possesses, like D. aureum. The plant flowers very profusely, and 
lasts for a considerable time in beauty. 
Some time ago Mr. Swan wrote me as follows concerning the 
origin and qualities of the hybrid :—“ I flowered several of the 
FIG. 13. - DENDROBIUM JUNO. 
plants in 1881 during January and February, and then considered 
them sufficiently distinct to deserve a name. I find it a free 
grower and an abundant bloomer, and one of its chief recommen¬ 
dations will be that it may be hastened into flower by Christmas, 
and by keeping it quiet and cool it may be retarded till March and 
April, or probably even later. The parents were D. nobile and 
D. aureum. D. nobile was fertilised in January, 1875, with pollen 1 
tal^en from a strong plant of D. aureum ; in fact this was one of 
the strongest pieces I have seen, with growths 2 feet long covered 
with bloom. The flower of D. nobile soon withered but did not 
fall, the seed pod quickly formed, and the seed was ripe, and sown 
in June of the same year on the top of a basket containing Den¬ 
drobium crassinode. The seedlings were first observed in February, 
1870. Being so small I did not disturb them for some time. 
However, when they had pseudo-bulbs about three-quarters of an 
inch long I pricked them out into two pots and hung them up in 
FIG. 14.— DENDROBIUM LEECHIANUM. 
the East India house. They continued to grow well, so that by the 
spring of 1880 I placed many of them in baskets 2 inches square.” 
Another of the Burford Lodge hybrids is Dendrobium Luna, 
shown and certificated on Jan. 14th last. It is a hybrid between 
D. Ainsworthi and D. Findlayanum, the pseudo-bulbs and growth 
resembling che latter parent The flowers are about 2^ inches 
across the lip, nearly circular, but somewhat oval, creamy white, 
yellow at the base, with a few purple veins in the centre. The 
sepals and petals are creamy white, faintly tipped with purple, the 
petals slightly broader than the sepals. The flowers are borne on 
short racemes of three or four each, and it appears to be both free- 
growing and free-flowering. 
The other hybrids in this genus must be dealt with very briefly. 
D. micans (Wardianum and lituiflorum) has rather attractive 
white and purple tinted flowers, and a shiny wax-like surface. 
D. porphyrogastrum (Huttoni and Dalhousieanum) is an interest¬ 
ing hybrid, in the flowers of which mauve and purple celouring 
predominates, with somewhat of the pollen parent’s floral form. 
D. rhodostema (Huttoni and sanguinolentum) partakes largely of 
the pollen parent’s characters. D. Schneiderianum (Findlayanum 
and aureum), raised at Fallowfield, possesses the habit of the seed 
parent and the principal floral characters of the pollen plant, except 
that a purple tint is introduced. D. splendidissimum (aureum and 
nobile) is the reverse cross from that which resulted in D. Leechi¬ 
anum ; it is very similar, but the variety grandiflorum is much 
superior in size, and is indeed one of the finest of the section yet 
obtained. D. Vannerianum (japonicum and Falconeri) has deli¬ 
cately pretty flowers, white tinted and tipped with purple. Other 
crosses have been raised, but have either not flowered or have 
proved too much like one of the parents to be distinguished under 
special names. In some cases this is probably due to the crosses 
not being satisfactorily effected, in others perhaps to accidental 
defects of condition or organism in one of the plants. —Leavis 
Castle. 
Stored Eoots.—T hese will play an important part in the supplies 
during the next three mouths, and they should be preserved as well as 
possible. Where they have been stored in large heaps some may be 
decaying, and these should be thrown out, all indications of growth re- 
