68 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MaRCH, 1923- 
The remains of a Corysanthes flower enabled Dr. Rogers to only identify 
the genus. The plants were sent from a Victorian locality, and proved of 
interest because they showed how the pedicel, which is almost sessile 
during the flowering season, becomes enormously elongated in order that 
the seed capsule may receive the benefit of wind and sun in the process of 
maturation. Dr. Rogers adds that members of this genus propagate chiefly 
‘by the vegetable method, and such specimens as these are rarely found. 
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ORCHIDS AT NAUGATUCK, CONN., U.S.A. 
HERE are many interesting Orchids in Mrs. B. B. Tuttle’s garden at 
Naugatuck, Conn., U.S.A. They are cultivated by Mr. M. J. Pope, 
who writes: This is the time when the greenhouses look gay with flowers. 
Here the Phalznopses are again making a grand show, which they have 
-done every season since 1905. About 300 plants, mostly P. Aphrodite, a 
few P. Schilleriana, P. Stuartiana, P. Lueddemanniana, P. leucorrhoda, and 
P. amabilis. Since these plants were purchased in 1904, I have only lost 
one each of P. rosea and P. amethystina. Of P. Aphrodite and P. 
Schilleriana I have unfortunately lost several, but of late years very few 
plants have died as I grow them cooler and hardier than in former times. 
After all, there seems to be no better compost for them than good living 
sphagnum moss. Apart from the Phalzenopses, there are several hundreds 
of other species and varieties, making a total of about 1500 Orchids, besides 
a general run of ordinary stove and greenhouse plants. At the present 
time, the middle of January, there are in flower Angraecum sesquipedale, 
A. eburneum, Bulbophyllum Medusz, another known as the Windmill 
‘Orchid, the tall Neobenthamia gracilis, Epiphronitis Veitchii, several 
Masdevallias, including tovarensis, Veitchiana, and ignea, Lelia anceps in 
variety, fine forms of Odontoglossum crispum, some choice varieties of 
Cattleya Triane, and many Cypripediums. We have Leeliocattleya 
-Cinnomax (L. cinnabarina x C. maxima), which was raised by Mr. E. O. 
It is appreciated very much on account of its peculiar salmon 
While the flowers are not large, they are very decorative, being 
produced from eight to fifteen on a stem. 
Disa CORNUTA.—An erect robust plant, with the stem straight, stout 
and leafy, spike cylindrical, closely many-flowéred. The odd sepal some- 
what helmet-shaped and produced into a spreading deflexed spur. It is 
one of the commonest Orchids in the neighbourhood of those suburbs of 
Cape Town which are on the eastern side of Table Mountain. It is most 
-easily found during the month of October, and becomes less common 
when travelling further eastward. 
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