AUGUST, 1923. ] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 24F 
charming Platyclinis filiformis—the golden chain Orchid—also Miltonias, 
Leliocattleyas, Dendrobium Parishii, Cypripedium Curtisii, and its variety 
Sandere, Bulbophyllum Godseffianum, and Oncidium Kramerianum. 
A Silver-gilt Medal was awarded Messrs. Sanders for a small group rich 
in-variety. A plant of Stanhopea tigrina, with its curiously constructed 
and strongly fragrant flowers, and another of Bulbophyllum macrobulbor 
with an inflorescence of four Juridly coloured, peculiar smelling, and’ 
strangely shaped blooms, drew many exclamations from the visitors. 
Odontiodas, Leeliocattleyas and Miltonias were well shown. Other 
interesting plants noted were Cypripedium Godefroye leucochilum, 
Dendrobium atro-violaceum, D. triflorum, Spathoglottis Fortunei, Odonto- 
glossum Schlieperianum, Lycaste aromatica, Cypripedium Gowerianum,. 
Bulbophyllum Lobbii Colossus and the interesting Masdevallia muscosa. 
Begonia Rex in variety were used in the place of ferns and added to the 
colour effect. 
Staged in a corner of Messrs. Wallace’s group of herbaceous plants,- 
were some well-grown examples of Orchis foliosa, their finely developed 
flowers forming a charming piece of colour, and proving that some of the 
European Orchids are well worthy of cultivation. E.C. 
L&LIOCATTLEYA CANHAMIANA.—Thirty-eight years have passed since’ 
the time when Lc. Canhamiana showed its first flowers. It was raised by 
Messrs. Veitch and named after Chas. Canham, one of their Orchid 
foremen at Chelsea. The record of the parentage was apparently lost, but 
the statement that it probably resulted from the crossing of L. purpurata 
with C. Mossize has since been proved to be correct. At the comparatively 
early date when this hybrid appeared, the cultural treatment then in use 
did not produce such rapid results as are witnessed to-day, and it is a 
matter of interest to learn that Lc. Canhamiana flowered for the first time 
when thirteen years old. Lelia purpurata is a tall growing plant that 
Possesses a robust constitution, and it is probably on this account that it 
appears so often as a parent in the early-day hybrids. There is little doubt 
that other species were also utilised, but as the art of seed-raising was then’ 
in its infancy, very few of these crosses reached maturity and being recorded. 
Notwithstanding the multitude of hybrids that have been recorded in alF 
sections of the Cattleya and Lelia genera, Lc. Canhamiana is still popular, 
and certainly merits a place in every collection. At the recent Chelsea 
Show there were several beautiful varieties in the Gold Medal group of 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Surrey. These plants stood erect in es 
their dignity, and appeared like the grand-parents, as indeed they were, of 
the immense family of younger generations staged around them. 
