FEBRUARY, 1923-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 37 
FOUR ONCIDIUMS. 
By JuLia A. STUCKEY, Unley Park, S. Australia. 
A interesting study in the vitality and recuperative power of Orchids 
is provided by four Oncidiums which arrived here on August 21st, 
1922, after two long voyages without any kind of cultivation or special 
treatment. Natives of the Organ Mountains, Brazil, they were part of an 
importation received in Yorkshire ; a small selection was promptly repacked 
and posted to me. They must have travelled some 17,000 miles, and 
several weeks must have passed between their collection and arrival here. 
Yet they were quite sound and healthy, some having live shoots and roots. 
Oncidium crispum had nine pseudobulbs, and a shoot which has since 
dried, but, instead, the two divisions into which the plant was cut have 
each a green shoot two inches long. Another O. crispum has a green shoot 
five inches. The third plant, which was originally tangled in the second, 
has a six inch shoot “going strong.” Oncidium curtum has been the 
slowest to move, but one plant has now a growing shoot five inches long, 
the other has one of aninch. Oncidium Forbesii is growing gaily with a 
three inch shoot on each plant, and Oncidium Marshallianum has a three 
and four inch shoot on the two plants. There is also a sign of a possible 
flower spike, which will be allowed to grow if it likes, on the principle that 
the plant has ample time in which to rest. 
The conditions here are not ideal, for on reading about the climatic 
conditions of their native place one is impressed with its humidity and 
coolness. The Organ Mountains appear to be not far from the sea, and to 
have an elevation up to 7,000 feet, which is, of course, unobtainable here. 
The plants do not seem to have numerous roots and there were no leaves 
or bark by which the trees they had presumably been growing on could be 
identified ; nevertheless, they have taken very kindly to the material 
provided for them, and the latest bulbs are, in every instance, much larger 
than the early ones, which is, I think, evidence that they are happy. 
GHENT QUINQUENNIAL EXxHIBITION.—Rapid progress is being made 
with the final arrangements in connection with the Great Quinquennial 
Exhibition to be held at Ghent from April 14 to 22, 1923. Among the 
prizes offered for competition is a Silver Cup, valued at 1,000 francs, which 
has been presented by Messrs. Sanders, of St. Albans and Bruges, in 
memory of their father, the late Mr. H. Frederick Sander. This cup, 
distinguished as the “ Prix Sander,” will be awarded for the best new 
plant, flowering or non-flowering, not yet in commerce, and not having been 
shown at any previous Ghent Quinguemnial Exhibition. The Jury will 
assemble on Friday, April 13th, at 2 p.m. 
