374 i STHE: ORCHID: REVIEW: | DECEMBER, 1923- 
There is Bolton’s variety of atro-violaceum, said to be specially distinct, a 
nice piece of Findlayanum, the elegant Brymerianum, a plant of aggregatum 
majus consisting of ten bulbs, Kingianum album, with its small flowers, 
though they are very pretty, and pulchellum, a healthy plant consisting of 
-about thirty bulbs. There are also good examples of nobile, arachnites and 
Victoria Regina, with its slate-blue flowers. 
Lelia harpophylla is another rarity worthy. of note, as also is the pretty 
Leptotes bicolor. Of the popular Lycaste genus, there are promising forms 
of lanipes, cruenta and aromatica, while the rarer Lawrenceana is some- 
times considered a rosy form of candida. The collection of Masdevallias 
includes about thirty varieties, one of the finest plants being seen in M. 
O’Brieniana. These neat little plants take up only a small amount of room, 
yet the more their flowers are studied, so much the more are they 
appreciated. Many of them are now very rare, so it is pleasing to find an 
amateur cultivating so extensive a collection. Maxillaria nigrescens, 
Nanodes Medusz and a healthy plant of Phalznopsis Lueddemanniana can 
also be mentioned, as well as several Odontoglossum species, a few Pleiones, 
some rare Réstrepias, and.a féw:brightly-coloured Odontiodas. 
The cultivation of Oncidiums is also undertaken, and most of the 
representatives of this genus have been selected with regard to showy 
flowers. There is a fine plant of O. cheirophorum, always attractive, also 
concolor, with its drooping spike of bright canary-yellow flowers, a strong 
plant of bicallosum with eleven bulbs, cucullatum, Papilio and Kramerianum, 
the latter with large flowers of yellow and red-brown colour. 
Another favourite plant in the autumn is Odontoglossum grande, and it 
is rather strange that such a large and showy flower has not by this time 
been the parent of several hybrids. However, Mr. Lister obtains good 
results from this well-known species. Other species worthy of note are 
Cattleya citrina, always a difficult plant to keep growing for any length of 
. time, the pretty Lelia Dayana, easily distinguished from L. pumila by the 
coloured ridges in the throat, the handsome Stanhopea tigrina, and 
Broughtonia sanguinea. Among the taller growing kinds, there are 
examples of Vanda teres, and V. tricolor, as well as V. coerulea. A plant 
bearing the name Pilumna nobilis is now generally know as Trichopilia 
fragrans var. nobilis. A Brazilian species is cultivated in Scuticaria 
Hadwenii, and a Colombian plant in Promenza xanthina, formerly known 
in gardens as P. citrina. 
Mr. Lister is full of enthusiasm and will doubtless do much in 
popularising the King of Plants in and around the city of York. His 
collection is at present contained in a house measuring 30ft x 8ft, but with 
the frequent acquiring of interesting Orchids, the 1 near future will probably 
see the erection of additional glass. 
