THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Decej 
batch of Od. Edwardii hybrids, which are kept for the purpose of sowing 
Odontoglossum seed on the surface of the compost, where it germinates 
freely on account of the presence of suitable fungus. 
At the time these notes were written a small house was entirely devoted 
to plants in flower, where, with a drier atmosphere, the blooms keep fresh 
for a longer period. They were being reserved for the R.H.S. Autumn 
Orchid Show, and made a georgeous display, the colours ranging from the 
purple-white of the albino Cattleyas, through rose and purple, to the dark 
reddish-purple of some Sophronitis crosses. At this season one did not 
expect to see many Odontoglossums, but there was a magnificent variety 
Od. crispum carrying an arching spike of fourteen white flowers. An attractive 
flower was the rich golden-yellow of Be. Sofrano (Mrs. J. Leemann X C. 
iridescens), and, near by, a tall plant of Lc. Carmencita (C. aurea X Lc, 
luminosa), with wide buff-yellow flowers. Cattleya Saturn carried a couple 
of chalk-white flowers that showed evidence of the Gaskelliana alba and 
O’Brieniana alba used in its creation. An old Orchid, known as Cattleya 
Portia, with a spike of eight flowers, proved that, when well grown, this 
plant is still useful and possesses much decorative character. 
The past summer has favoured the Cattleya section, and plants of C r 
aurea have given as many as three good flowers on a spike. An elegant 
novelty exists in Cattleya Lacrosse (Adula X Hardyana), in which C. 
bicolor, contained in the former parent, has produced erect petals, and an 
elongated labellum of bright rich purple. A specially fine, large rose- 
coloured flower exists in Be. Olympus var. Nena, given an Award of Merit, 
R.H.S., September 21st, 1920, and also in the Bryndir variety of Cattleya 
St. George there exists a plant of great beauty and one that obtained a 
similar award on October 23rd, 1917. Blc. Morna superbais represented by 
more than one specimen plant, and the flowers are not only of large size, 
but have the margin of the lip very prettily fringed. A number of paintings 
prove the high merit of the numerous gems in the Bryndir collection, and 
are always of use when the plants are not in flower. An instance can be 
given in Lc. Nena, the painting of which shows the extraordinary orange- 
red colour of this plant, and when it is mentioned that seven or eight of 
these blooms are produced on a spike some idea of the fine effect produced 
can be imagined. 
Cattleya Mossiae never possesses a robust constitution, aud the majority 
of the earlier imported plants have long since passed away. But Dr. 
Lacroze has nice plants of C. Mossiae Arnoldiana, which was first flowered 
in 1884, an d of C. Mossiae Sea Foam, a charming variety formerly in the 
late Mr. J. G. Fowler’s collection. The Bryndir variety of Lc. Thyone is 
remarkably distinct, and the large golden-apricot-coloured flower has a 
crimson band of colour round the apex of the expansive lip. The future 
