THE ORCHID REVIEW 
Vol. XXIX ] AUGUST, 1921. [No. 338. 
NOTES. 
Angulocaste Bievreana. —Among the many plants of interest in 
Messrs. Sanders’ group at the Holland House Show was Angulocaste 
Bievreana, which at first sight has the appearance of a new Anguloa. Its 
history dates back to 1895, when a flower of Anguloa Ruckeri was crossed 
with the pollen, it is said, of Lycaste Skinneri, but this seems doubtful, for 
the flower gives strong evidence of L. cruenta being the actual pollen 
parent. It was raised in the collection of the King of the Belgians by M. de 
Bievre, and flowered for the first time in July, 1903. The fragrant flowers 
are deep yellow, lightly spotted with red on the column and base of the lip 
and petals, and several are produced from the base of each new bulb. 
Cattleya Culture. —I read with much interest the note on p. 4, 
concerning the cultivation of Cattleyas. A few years back, during the 
month of August, I saw a fine batch of C. Schroder* that had evidently 
been grown in an exceedingly moist atmosphere at a high temperature. 
In fact, the bulbs were so large and soft that I very much wondered 
whether they would keep sound during the winter months. Whether the 
production of these large bulbs was the real intention of the cultivator I 
know not, but during the late summer months these plants were given by 
gradual degrees an abundance of light and air that would astonish many 
growers. In the doiirse of a few weeks the bulbs became thoroughly well 
ripened and in many cases acquired a bronze-like tint. When the 
flowering season arrived in the early spring of the following year the amount 
and quality of the flowers was truly amazing. Some of the finest blooms I 
have seen rewarded the cultivator. I was there and then convinced for 
ever that judicious ripening of the bulbs in the autumn was the secret, and 
that this treatment should commence in time to allow the process to be 
completed before the sun lost too much of its power. However necessary 
this ripening process maybe, there is one still more important, and that is the 
production in the first instance of a really large bulb worthy of being so 
ripened. There is still much truth in the old proverb: “First catch your 
hare, then cook him.”—H.L.K. 
