324 ORCHIDS. 
were soon afterwards brought to England by Mr. Chesterton, 
and established in Messrs. Veitch’s collection. Mr. Bull 
also was successful in the early days of its  intro- 
duction. The original description by Professor Reichen- 
bach, in the ‘‘Gardeners’ Chronicle” for 1867, amusingly 
records the secrecy in which this plant was enveloped 
Fig. 77. Flowers of Miltonia Warscewiczii 
(nat, size). 
on its first introduction to Europe. He says that the 
flower from which the description was drawn up was 
borrowed for him by a friend, “after having given 
his promise (1) not to show it to anybody else, (2) not 
to speak much about it, (3) not to take a drawing, 
