I would like to say a few words in praise of Dendrobium Dearii, which I think ought to be in every collection of Orchids; for with about half a dozen plants you can always have some of those frosted white blooms to look at. With us they do not seem to have any special blooming season, but keep on pushing up spike after spike, either from the old or young growth. Of course, it is not such a fine flower as D. eburneum giganteum, which is now in bloom here; but where Eburneum lasts one month, Dearii will keep in bloom three. We had two spikes opened May 20th, and now as fresh as can be. We have a good spike just now open with eighteen flowers on it, which is about the best we have ever had. They are grown in the Cattleya house. I think that is the best house to grow them in, for they are pushing up some fine growths which promise to be as good as those made in their native woods.

The plant that has the eighteen blooms was imported only this spring. Lee, Mass.