360 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (DECEMBER, 1922. 
flowered this year for the first time, Lc. Aureole (C. Iris X Lc. luminosa), 
a fine strain raised here from yellow-flowering parents, and Lc. Canary IL, 
produced by crossing C. Fabia with Lc. Thyone, the flowers are clear 
yellow, and it was awarded a Preliminary Certificate when first exhibited at 
the R.H.S., and last year given an Award of Merit. Le. Thyone is well 
represented by a flower with golden coloured segments, and there are some 
remarkably fine varieties of C. Iris and C. Venus. Cattleya Antiope yields 
flowers of an old gold tint with an effective purple coloured lip. Several 
albino Cattleyas must not be passed over, they are C. Lady Veitch, a fine 
variety of C. Everest, named during the present year, C. Cowanie, of 
excellent form, and many crosses of albino varieties, whose characters 
remain to be proved later on. 
A particularly fine hybrid is to be seen in Leliocattleya Excelsior (C. 
Mendelii Colossus X Le. Canhamiana alba), the Ashstead Park variety of 
which obtained a First-class Certificate when exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, May 20th, 1919, and The Globe variety a similar 
certificate just seven days later. The former has broad white segments, 
with the front lobe of the lip rosy purple, while in the latter variety the 
petals are marked with a broad lilac-mauve band up the centre. These 
were the two first seedlings to flower of the batch that was raised in 
this collection; they have not been surpassed in beauty by others that have 
since reached maturity. Cattleya Mossiz has a very poor constitution, and 
on that account most of the fine varieties of former days have passed away. 
In this collection there are, however, a few plants worthy of notice, among 
them being C. Mossia Sea Foam, with its crisped and wave-like lip of 
milky white colour. It came from the collection of the late Mr. J. Gurney 
Fowler in rather a poor state, but after being nursed in sphagnum moss 15 
now recovering, and has been divided into three nice little plants. In a 
corner of this house are a dozen or more Cattleyas that have been fertilised 
with other good things. 
Brassocattleyas are much in evidence, and comprise the elegant Be. 
Cliftonii ‘‘ The Globe,” figured in the Orchid World, vol. v., page 226, also 
the well-known magnifica variety of the same hybrid, and Bc. Olympus, 4 
gorgeous flower having C. Hardyana in its parentage. Coming to more 
complex hybrids, there is Blc. The Baroness, F.C.C., R.H.S., August 26th, 
1913, and Blc. Thyone (Bc. Mrs. J. Leeman X Lc. Thyone) of orange- 
yellow colour, both of which receive much appreciation on account of their 
wonderful colour. Paintings are preserved of many of the finest hybrids, 
and it must be said that they show a very high standard of excellence. That 
of Lc. Mrs. Temple var. Dreadnought depicts a flower with round, erect 
petals and an immense lip; the plant was in poor condition when obtained, 
but has since been divided into three, and may yield still finer flowers. 
