upright spikes from the base of the young growths. The sepals and petals are 
brownish purple, with a narrow green border, and sometimes distant cross lines of 
green, while the lip is broad, and of a dark purplish blue. The plant lasts in 
- bloom for about two months. 
It is a very free-growing Orchid, requiring exactly the same treatment as 
Zygopetalum Mackayi, and other familiar species. The Cattleya house will be found 
to suit it best, and it should be grown in a compost of good fibrous loam with 
a little leaf-mould added. Being naturally a strong fleshy rooting plant it requires 
a good supply of water during the growing season. It is best cultivated in a pot. 
Orcuips at New-Hari-Hey.—When visiting the collection of G. W. Law- 
Schofield, Esq., New-Hall-Hey, Rawtenstall, near Manchester, we noticed the finest 
variety of Dendrobium lituiflorwm we have ever seen. It bore seventy of its lovely 
showy blossoms, the sepals and petals of which were of a very dark purple colour, 
and the lip white, edged with purple; this was one of the richest coloured Orchids 
we have seen. We also noticed a grand variety of D. crassinode superbum, each 
blossom being three and a half inches across, and of a very good colour. 
Associated with this was D. MacCarthie, which one seldom sees, though it bears. 
some of the most beautifully bright pinkish rose and white flowers that can be 
imagined, and they are of good size and substance. Of Odontoglossum vewillarium 
there was a plant which had upon it forty-one of its richly coloured flowers, each 
measuring four and a half inches across. In the Cattleya house was a very fine 
Cattleya Mossie grandis, with sepals and petals of a delicate rose colour, and the 
lip large, of a rich magenta, with a lighter margin, each blossom measuring eight 
inches across. There is here a newly erected house for Cattleyas, which are doing 
well, and reflect great credit upon Mr. J. Wise, the gardener, who takes very great 
interest in his plants, everything being kept in good order.—B. 8. W 
CATTLEYA GIGAS BURFORDIENSIS.—We noticed a wonderful example of Cattleya 
gigas burfordiensis at a recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was 
exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., -and was deservedly awarded a 
First Class Certificate. The plant bore. four very fine blossoms, each measuring 
more than eight inches in diameter; the sepals and petals were of a beautiful rose 
colour, the lip large, three inches across, and of a deep amethyst colour, edged 
with dark purple-rose, the throat being orange, and the upper portion folded over 
the column of the same rich rosy purple colour as the lip. The plant was in a 
very vigorous state of growth, and the flowers stood up well, so as to give it an 
imposing appearance. It is no doubt one of the finest of the Cattleyas.—B. S. W. 
