strong enough to flower. We have so often given instructions as to potting, and 
the soil to use and how to use it, that it need not be repeated here ; but we will 
just add a reminder, that Cattleyas enjoy a nice roomy house, and an abundance 
of fresh air. Where this is accorded, insects of all sorts are less liable to attack 
them, but they should be kept scrupulously clean. 
L#LIA GRANDIS TENEBROSA.—This plant seems to be flowering freely with many 
growers this season, and it appears to vary considerably in different plants. 
Amongst many flowers which we have received from time to time, one from the 
collection of G. Hardy, Esq., Timperley, Cheshire, has been the leading variety, 
but a flower recently received from the Rev. E. Handley’s collection at Bath has 
at last placed Mr. Hardy’s plant into the second position. The sepals and petals 
are broad, and of a deep chestnut-brown in colour, and the large lip is heavily 
blotched with blackish maroon, having veins of the same rich dark colour extending 
to the front. These are certainly the finest coloured varieties that we have yet 
seen. We have also received a fine variety from M. Le Comte de Germiny, 
Chateau de Gouville, France.—W. H. G. 
CaTTLEYAS FROM LLANDUDNO.—We recently received from the collection of Joseph 
Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno, two of the most magnificent Cattleya flowers 
we have ever seen. The first was a grand bloom of Cattleya gigas Sanderiana, 
measuring fully nine inches across. The sepals and petals were broad, forming a 
handsome and well-shaped flower, of a deep rosy purple in colour, the petals being 
prettily frilled at the edges; lip large and spreading, beautifully undulated, and 
wholly of a deep rich violet-purple, the sides of the throat having the two 
_ characteristic rich -yellow eye-like spots, which render all the varieties known by 
the name of gigas so telling and conspicuous. The other was a magnificent 
flower of the well-known old favourite, Cattleya Mossie. We have only seen one 
flower that at all approached it, and that was named “Mrs. Smee.” Mr. Broome’s 
flower had a particularly happy deportment which added materially to its beauty. 
The sepals and petals were of good substance, and deep rose in colour, whilst the 
large frilled lip was wholly of a rich crimson-magenta, with darker lines, and it 
also had a marginal border of lilac or mauve. The tawny orange markings 
peculiar to this form of the Jadiata section were continued along the sides a 
considerable distance. In the two flowers there was no point in which to pick out 
a blemish.—W. H. G. : 
