JuLy, 1914. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 201 
i LT.-COL. SIR. GEO, L. HOLFORD, ACC GO, CLE. 
E have much pleasure in giving a recent and excellent portrait of Lt.- 
Col. Sir George L. Holford, one of our foremost amateur Orchidists, 
from whose fine collection at Westonbirt, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, so 
many excellent exhibits are sent to the meetings of the Royal Horticultural 
Society and elsewhere. Sir George has inherited the tastes of his father, 
who was a prominent Orchid grower over sixty years ago—it was in the 
collection of Mr. Robert S. Holford, at Westonbirt, that the remarkable 
Fig. 23. Lr.-Cor. Str Grorce L. Horrorp, K.C.V.O., 6.1.5. 
example of ‘‘Cycnoches ventricosum and C. Egertonianum on the same 
raceme,” as it was termed by Lindley, appeared as long ago as 1844—and 
it may be interesting to add that when we had the pleasure of seeing the 
Collection six years ago a few interesting plants were pointed out that had 
been there for over half a century. The present owner of Westonbirt 
Succeeded to the estate on the death of his father in 1892, and since then 
the collection has been completely modernised and extended, a complete 
Set of new houses built with all the latest improvements, and under the care 
