76 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MarcuH, 1923. 
The sash-bars of all the houses are of the anti-drip pattern, and the ends of 
the glass are round so that rain and condensed moisture is drawn away 
from the bars and runs down the central area. 
One end of this corridor is occupied by over 200 plants of Cattleya 
Hardyana alba, all grand plants, several having four leading growths. 
This cross was made with the variety of C. Warscewiczii having white 
sepals and petals, characters that are reproduced in the offspring, the 
labellum being richly coloured and standing out in strong contrast to the 
surrounding creamy-white segments. The central section of the corridor 
contains about 200 specimens of Leliocattleya Schroeder alba, a hybrid 
that, in this collection, commences to bloom at the end of October and 
continues nearly to the end of January. When Mr. J. E. Shill took charge 
of this collection in January, 1g11,; he at once commenced the work of 
producing new hybrids. Fortunately, there were available fine varieties of 
C. Maggie Raphael alba and Le. Bella alba, and the crossing of these has 
produced one of the finest typesof Leliocattleya ever seen. There are 
many superb specimens in this, batch, and several of the spikes carried 
seven flowers. Our illustration depicts Lc. Schroederee var. The Conqueror 
exactly life-size. It is rather unfortunate that this fine hybrid can rarely be 
induced tocarry a seed pod, numerous attempts to fertilise the flowers with 
different pollen have almost been failures. But this may be in some way 
connected with the special strain of this hybrid ; it has been raised in other 
collections where the flowers, though not so large, seem better able to 
carry seed pods. 
Other fine hybrids are Leliocattleya Anaconda (C. aurea X Lc. Pallas) 
and Lc. Mrs. Willoughby Pemberton, the latter a remarkable result derived 
from the fine Lc. Baroness Emma and Le. eximia. Another remarkable 
hybrid raised in this collection is Lc. Ivanhoe, the result of crossing C. 
aurea with the well-known Le. eximia; the immense flowers show the 
richest coloration in the segments, which will doubtlees be perpetuated in 
some of the many seedlings that have been raised from it. The last section 
of the corridor is filled with various Cymbidium hybrids of the insigne 
section, one example examined carried no less than eight many-flowered 
spikes, and there were several others with single spikes of unusual length. 
Passing on to a section of the seed-raising department, one comes 
across a vast multitude of little seedlings, so numerous that they can only 
be counted in tens of thousands. Several fine crossings have been made 
and raised from the magnificent Sophroleliocattleya Prince Hirohito, 
which received the high award of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Show of 
1921, and subsequently passed into The Dell Park collection. One can 
safely predict that some really startling novelties will be seen from this 
unique parent. In raising these seedlings every endeavour is made to get 
