158 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May, 1914: 
Rises REVIEW OF BOOK. Bec 
Commercial Orchid Growing. By C. Alwyn Harrison, F.R.H.S., pp. 132 
with illustrations. London, The Lockwood Press, 1, Mitre Court, 
Fleet Street. : 
HIS work is intended as a treatise on Orchids for the Cut Flower trade, 
and the author remarks that considering the comparatively high 
-prices that can be obtained from the sale of cut blooms of Orchids, and that 
there is at the same time a constant and growing demand for them, it 
seems strange that many of our large market florists do not devote at ee 
-one house for the purpose of cultivating a batch of some popular variety: 
He is convinced that there is a good opening in the cut flower trade for our 
‘market florists as a side line, if strict attention be paid to the important 
points of starting with sound healthy plants and growing only kinds which 
-command a good market price. The work is divided into 15 chapters, 
showing the most suitable kinds to grow, the different houses, their 
-structure and arrangement, and the proper treatment of their inmates, the 
adapting of existing houses to the purpose, and a monthly Calendar of 
“Operations. The Orchids recommended as most suitable for cut flowers 
are Dendrobiums, Cypripediums, Cattleyas, Odontoglossums, and 
Oncidiums, with a few others that may be grown with them. The 
‘work supplies sound practical advice on a phase of Orchid culture that 1s 
becoming of increasing importance. 
SOPHROCATLELIA Dorita (Sophrocattleya Doris x Lelia pumila 
Raised in the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham. 
Flowers about the size of S.-c. Doris, with very broad petals, and the 
colour warm purple. Several plants have flowered, and six OF seven 
-crosses have been raised from it. 
OponTiopA OTHELLO (Odontoglossum Othello x Odontioda ee 
ensis).—An interesting hybrid, having the sepals and petals bee 
blotched with purple-brown on a light yellow ground, and the lip hu 
with numerous purple blotches all round the yellow crest. Raised int 
-collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gt: Mr. J: 
Collier). 
ODoNTIODA VIVIENNE.—By some inexplicable mistake this name “a 
printed Odontoglossum Vivienne at page 59. Readers are requested 
make the correction. 
OponTIODA ANTONIO (O. Cooksoniz x Odontoglossum Harryanum). 
Raised in the collection of Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam, PY 
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