here, too, we saw the first seedling Odontoglossums which had been raised in this 
country ; they had been obtaimed from this’ species without any efforts at 
hybridisation, and were growing and doing well. 
The grand variety here figured was grown in the fine collection of E. Salt, Esq., 
Ferniehurst, Shipley, Leeds, and is another fine record to add to the many superb 
varieties which have flowered in that establishment, and we are much indebted to him 
for the opportunity of figuring it in the pages of the Atpum. It blooms in 
the autumn months, and lasts a long time in full beauty. 
Odontoglossum Uro-Skinneri is a bold-growing evergreen plant, making large 
flat pseudobulbs, which spring from a creeping rhizome. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 
firm, and of good substance; the ground colour of the sepals and petals is very 
variable—indeed, this has been noted from the time of its first introduction. Mr. 
Skinner said of it “that it varied in almost every plant”; but although during 
the past thirty years we have seen many plants in flower, not one to approach the 
beauty of the one here figured has appeared. The colouring of the sepals and petals is 
for the most part of a pale green, marked over the surface with brown _ blotches, 
or of a dull brown, mottled more or less with green, and the lip white, dotted 
all over with blue or pale rose, with white markings, and not the rich rose and 
chestnut-brown of this illustration. The present plant is evidently a near 
ally of 0. bictonense, but Mr. Skinner points out the difference in the two 
species. He says, “O. bictonense has oblong narrow bulbs and leaves, and. no 
rhizome, but massed and always terrestrial, half buried in mossy banks.” Our 
present plant has large and flat bulbs and a running rhizome; but we think 
that the conditions under which Mr. Skinner found it, z.e., on rocks, are too often 
lost sight of by our Orchid growers. We have frequently observed this plant to be 
very much over-potted, and in consequence, thriving indifferently; therefore, bear in 
mind our advice and do not overburden the roots with soil, which is the great stumbling- 
block, especially to young amateur growers. Drain the pots carefully and well, and use 
for soil about half good peat fibre, from which all the fine mould has been well 
Shaken, and some chopped sphagnum moss; mix the whole together with some 
medium-sized nodules of charcoal, and in potting add here and there a slight dash 
of sharp, gritty silver sand, pressing the whole down very firmly. At this, the dull 
season of the year, water sparingly, but keep the plant moist, and at the turn of 
the season, when the days lengthen and the sun brightens, more may be given, 
until in the summer season it may be treated in the same manner as the beautiful 
O. crispum (Alexandre), which we all love so well. 
