Cattleya Eldorado splendens is an evergreen variety, and resembles tlie typical 

 plant in its growth. Its short clavate stems are about six inches high, and 

 terminate with a solitary, ligulate, deep green leaf; the scape issues from between 

 a long narrow sheath on the top of the pseudobulb, and bears three large flowers ; 

 the sepals and petals are of a clear rose colour; the lip is large, having a rich, 

 deep orange-coloured throat, succeeded by a circle of white, followed by a belt of 

 rich violet- purple, which extends to the front and round the margins. The colours 

 in this variety are beautifully contrasted and blended, and produce an effect altogether 

 different and superior to that of the original form. It blooms during the months 

 of September and October, and its flowers continue in perfection for three or four 



weeks. 



As before remarked^ this Cattleya is found in tlie low-lying regions near the 

 Rio Negro, in Brazil, where the temperature is high, and, consequently, in our 

 treatment of this plant we place it at the warmest part of the Cattleya house. 

 Some of the plants we cultivate in teak wood baskets suspended from the roof; 

 others we have grown in pots, and they appear to thrive equally well in both 

 positions. There is no doubt that, in order to flower them well, they require good 

 exposure to light. We use rough fibrous peat and sphagnum moss for potting ; 

 but although all Cattleyas thrive in this material, we do not advocate the use of 

 a great quantity of it about their roots ; the system of pottiug should be the same 

 as we have previously advised for C. Mossice and others, and the drainage must 

 a-lways be kept free. 



Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester. — In November last, we visited the above- 

 named place, the residence of Thomas Statter, Esq., in order to see the collection 

 of Orchids which has been gathered together at this establishment, and it was a 



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great source of gratification to see plants so well grown and cared for. Odonto- 

 glossoms were represented by a fine lot of 0. Alexandres and O. Pescatorei, and, 

 indeed, nearly all the leading kinds are to be found in this collection in vigorous 

 health ; the fine robust growths they are now making will doubtless, in the coming 

 year, produce hundreds of spikes of bloom, whilst even at the time of our visit, 

 there were some very good forms already expanded. In another house we observed 

 some fine plants of Cattleya and Lselia, such kinds as C. Mendelii, C Mossi(B, 

 Lcelia purpurata (many fine specimens), and L. elegans being conspicuous. East 

 Indian Orchids were represented by a well-grown lot of Dendrobiums, and by 

 several plants of Va^ida cccridea and of many other genera. The plants of Vanda 

 ccerulea were exceptionally fine, bearing seven spikes of their charming blue 

 flowers ; this species is undoubtedly one of the most chaste of the • forms which 

 have yet been introduced to cultivation. Associated with the blue Vandas was the 

 superb Cattleya Dowiana aurea, with its showy yellow and crimson -purple flowers; 

 and also plants of Oncidium tTonesianum, bearing some good spikes, its showy 

 white and spotted flowers rendering it very efiective ; Cypripedium Spicerianum was 

 showing twenty spikes. • 



(Continued wider Plate 311.) 



