334 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NovEMBER, 1922. 
Bath and West of England, at Maidstone, June gth, 1884, where it was- 
being exhibited by Mr. Roger Leigh, of Barham Court, near Maidstone. It 
had five spikes and a total of 69 blooms open, and was a perfect plant, 
being leaved to the base, and having three fine additional growths. Some 
of the yokels who attended to the cattle were talking of the “ wunnerful 
archid,” while the new owner was listening, unknown to them. “ They tell 
me,” one of them remarked, “‘ that he gave the valoo o’ two bullicks for that 
‘ere thing, lor lummee, aint it a rum ’un.” His friend thought deeply, and 
looking at the lovely Vanda exclaimed “‘ More durned fool ’e.”” That settled 
the matter as far as he was concerned, and they passed on. The ‘ durned 
fool.” did not stop buying Vandas, for in June, 1891, hearing of another 
magnificent plant from the same source, bought it giving the value o’ four 
bullicks for it. 
ORCHIDS IN THE COLLECTION OF A. C. BURRAGE, Esg.—The climate of 
the United States is never considered an ideal one for the culture of 
Odontoglossums and other cool-house Orchids, for the excessive heat 
generally experienced during the summer months is not conducive to their 
welfare. But in the hands of experienced persons a great measure of 
success can be obtained. Proof of this is seen in a photograph of the 
interior of a large span-roofed house filled with cool growing species and 
hybrids growing robustly and flowering freely in the collection of A. C- 
Burrage, Esq., of Boston, Mass., U.S.A., to whom the Gold Medal of the 
Massachussetts Horticultural Society was recently awarded. The Appleton 
Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. George I’Anson for his skill in cultivating 
them. This photograph of Mr. Burrage’s cool house shows a profusion of 
bloom from one end to the other. Two remarkably fine varieties of O. 
crispum with broad petals, each carry about a dozen flowers, and close to 
them are two handsomely blotched varieties with similarly fine spikes.. 
Some good forms of O. Pescatorei, and several hybrids between this species 
and QO. crispum show much blotching on the segments. The strong 
characters of O. Harryanum are plainly visible in many of the flowers. In 
contrast to the white-ground flowers are many Odontiodas of scarlet and 
deep-red colour, all bearing excellent spikes of bloom. Mr. Anson also: 
sends a photograph of a well-flowered plant of Cypripedium pubescens 
bearing upwards of seventeen flowers, and another of Cypripedium acaule 
alba with six flowers, the sepals and petals light green, the pouch pure 
white. Mr. I’Anson remarks that this latter plant is a fine thing when 
seen flowering in company with the coloured form, and although one 
has to hunt to find it in his locality, it is said to be often seen in the 
State of Main. A note on this species was included on page 306 of our 
October issue. 
