therefore advise our readers to keep it at the coolest end of the Odontoglossum 
house, potting it in good upland peat fibre, mixed with some fresh and growing 
sphagnum moss. The pots should be well drained, for it likes an abundance of 
water to the roots when growing, and means should always be provided for this 
to pass away quickly, and a nice moist atmosphere should be maintained; in fact 
the plant should never be allowed to become quite dry at any season, although, as 
a matter of course, very much less water is necessary in the winter months than 
is required during the spring and summer. Some slight syringing will also be 
advantageous during the dry, hot weather, but it should be done very carefully 
with a fine rose, and just enough water should be used as will fall upon the 
plants in the form of a gentle dew. 
THE TEMPLE SHOW. 
At this exhibition, held in the last week of May, many fine plants were to 
be seen, although there was a great lack of novelty. Amongst the plants in the 
collection of Baron Sir J. Henry Schroeder was a fine plant of the pure white Sobrala 
macrantha, called Kienastiana. Another grand specimen in this collection was 
Calogyne Dayana, with twenty-four spikes about three feet in length, bearing some 
thirty-six flowers upon each raceme, or nearly eight hundred flowers in all; it was very 
fine. Another remarkable and fine plant was named Odontoglossum crispum apiatum, 
having a very large blotch of bright chestnut-brown on each segment, accompanied 
by two smaller spots of the same colour, the sepals being tinted with violet. This, 
I think, is the variety named Duvali, and figured by M. Godefroy, of Paris, before 
the name of apiatum was given it by Reichenbach. However, it is one of the 
grandest forms of O. crispum; and so also is the variety Sanderianum, but 
somewhat inferior to apiatum or Duvali. Vanda teres and Cattleya Skinnert were 
also remarkably fine in the Baron’s collection, as also were Dendrobium nobile 
nobilius and a nice Cattleya gigas Sanderiana, rich in colour and having many 
blooms. Masdevallias, too, were very fine, particularly M. Veitchii, M. Denisonu, 
and M. Gairiana, the group being well set up, while the health of the specimens 
was highly creditable to the efforts of the gardener, Mr. Ballantine. In the next 
lot, which was set up by Mr. White, who has charge of Sir Trevor Lawrence’s 
fine collection, were many plants of great reputation, amongst them being a 
~ remarkably well-flowered Cattleya Wagenerii, with its pure white blooms stained with 
yellow in the throat; also a very fine Cattleya Mendelu, and a very richly-coloured 
Lelia tenebrosa. There were also some fine flowers of the rare Dendrobium 
polyphlebium, and D. Parishii albens, which has white sepals and petals, and a 
rosy lip blotched at the base with two black eye-like spots. Cochlioda Noetzliana, 
with cinnabar flowers, was also shown in several examples, and it bids fair to be an 
excellent plant; but, of course, it is too recent in cultivation to show its full beauty. 
(Continued under Plate 466.) 
