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he following 1 Coloured 
Mates have appeared :— 
March 14—NEW CHINESE PRIMULAS. 
March 21.—A GROUP OF DAVALLIAS. 
March28 —TEA ROSE “ CHAMELEON,” 
d COOMBE CLIFFE GARDENS. 
April 4—COLEUS THYRSOIDEUS. 
April 11.—PITCHER PLANTS. 
April 18.—CESTRUM SMITHII. 
April 25.-JAPANESE PIGMY TREE. 
May 2.—Half-Tone Plate of the ROCKERY 
J WENTWORTH HOUSE. 
May 9.—Half-Tone Plate of another view 
THE ROCKERY AT WENTWORTH 
OUSE. 
May 23.-Coloured Plate of SAXIFRAGA 
RISEBACHII and A GROUP OF ALC 
ASIAS. 
Back numbers may be obtained from the 
iblisbers, price 2^d. post free. 
Mith the PRESENT ISSUE we present a 
OT,^L Plate of DENDROBIUM NOBILE 
OTUNDIFLORUM and D.n. NOBILIUS. 
XEXT WEEK we shall present a Mono- 
rorae Plate of a GROUP OF CALADIUMS. 
Views and Reviews. 
Dendrobium nobile. 
(See Coloured Plate.) 
One of the earliest of the De-ndrobiums- to- 
be imported was. D. nobile-, and it still con¬ 
tinues a great favourite with cultivators 
everywhere. On this occasion we shall in¬ 
dicate a. number of the best varieties which 
have been honoured with special names.. One 
of the more recent coining under our notice 
is that named D. nobile- ro-tundifloruni, the 
subject of our coloured Supplement, to- which 
we refer our readers, thereby saving minute 
description. The flowers are of large size-, 
and of a lively rose purple on the outer half 
of the segments, fading towards the- centre, 
where- they are almost white. The lip is 
also- of large size-, with the usual rich crimson- 
purple blotch in the thro-at, the area aro-und 
the disc being creamy white-, and the tip of 
a rich purple. The whole aspect of the- 
flower is that of a well-balanced bloom, with 
broad and rounde-d segments to the flower. 
The stem, with its flowers, from which our 
coloured illustration was prepared, was sent 
us by Messrs. James Cypher and Sons, 
Queen’s Road Nurseries, Cheltenham, in 
whose collection only have we seen it. 
On the upper left hand corner of the plate 
is a painting of a single flower of D. nobile 
nobilius, to- show the difference in colour. 
The last-named variety is the- largest form 
of D. noibile in cultivation, being sometimes 
4 in. in diameter. Of course, it must, be 
understood that both of those varieties on 
the plate- are very much reduced in size iii 
order to- get them into- the- space at com¬ 
mand. Both the- bunch of flowers and the 
blo-o-ms themselves were so- large that they 
had to- be-greatly reduced in size. With the 
last-named variety we- may class D. n. san- 
de-rianum, which is similar in general 
appearance and in the rich colour of its 
flowers, but all parts- of the individual bloom 
are- much broader and more- rounded than in, 
D. 11 . nobilius. Another dark variety which 
we must not overlook is- D. n. wallichianum, 
which is chiefly notable for the rich ro-se- 
purple colour of its flowers. 
One of the most remarkable- o-f all the 
varieties of D. no-bile- is that well known 
under the name-of D. n. cooksonianum, which 
was- a. sport that first appeared in the col¬ 
lection of Theodore Lange-, Esq., o-f Gates¬ 
head. Some of these plants passed into- the 
collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., after whom 
the late Professor Reichenbach named it. 
About the- same time it sported in the collec¬ 
tion of the late Right Hon. W. H. Smith. It, 
also sported in the collection of J. B. Mirr- 
le-e-s-, Esq., near Glasgow, an account o-f which 
was- given in The Gardening World about 
the time. The special character of this 
variety is that the petals have attempted to 
form two- supernumerary lips, not. identical 
with the proper lip, but still a bold 
attempt to form a regular flower known as 
peloria. An illustration of this variety was 
given in The Gardening World, Volume 
IV., p. 393. The remarkable thing about 
this Dendro-be is that, the sport should have 
occurred at so many places and so- widely 
apart. They would appear to have formed a, 
part of o-ne original piece, probably in its 
native state,, and which must have- had a 
tendency to- sport, in this way. No- less re¬ 
markable is the fact, that it, has remained so 
constant under cultivation. The constitu¬ 
tion of the plant is also .excellent, for many 
cultivators have by this time been, able to 
add it to- their collections. The variety has 
a, synonym in D. nobile he-athfieldianum, 
named after the place where it originally 
sported. 
A ne-arly white variety is under cultivation, 
and has been named variously D. n. album 
and D. n. albiflo-rum. This is not pure 
white, seeing that it has got the usual crim¬ 
son blotch c-n, the lip. It is a. veiy valuable 
De-ndrobe, seeing that, at, a short, distance- the 
flowers may practically be taken for white. 
In the s-ame group we should also, place- D. n. 
ballianium, by reason of the co-lo-ur, but, no-t 
in other respects. The flowers are rather 
small, but of a, beautiful clear shining white 
on the sepals and petals, while the lip is more 
nearly white- than in the- previously-named 
form. The- variety frequently turns up in 
importations, and is characterised by the 
pale- rosy pink blotch in the throat, but 
varies in different specimens, some being 
much paler than others. 
