Juty, 1914 | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 203 
The Nurseries are some ten minutes walk from Crowborough Station, on 
the side of a gentle slope, and are about eleven acres in extent. 
Twenty-five houses are devoted entirely to Orchids, and these are 
arranged in two blocks, and heated by a set of Robin Hood boilers, 
connected in pairs, so that either can be worked separately or cut off for 
repairs if necessary. The range furthermost from the road consists of 
eleven houses extending from a long Corridor 200 feet long by 20 feet wide, 
and divided into two. This Corridor has a northern aspect, and is kept as 
cool as possible, and largely used for plants required for immediate use or 
that are being held back for future exhibitions. It contains batches of 
Cattleyas, Oncidiums, Dendrobiums, Cymbidiums, &c., and we noted in 
bloom a lot of Cattleya Mossia and Mendelii, some well-flowered 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum and Oncidium pulvinatum, and a good 
example of O. serratum, with batches of O. incurvum and Wentworthianum 
in spike. Among miscellaneous subjects we noted the type plant of the 
striking Lowiara insignis (Sophronitis grandiflora X Brassolzlia Helen) just 
expanding, and it may be added that elsewhere was a second plant of the 
batch that has not yet bloomed. 
From the right hand side of the Corridor extend a range of eleven 
houses, 125 feet long, the first two 25 feet wide and the rest 12 feet. They 
run north and south, and have top ventilators, worked by a lever, and 
shutters at the side, protected by iron gratings. Both canvas and lath 
roller blinds are used, the latter running horizontally, and the floors are of 
soil, with cinder paths, so as to give off a constant supply of atmospheric 
moisture. A long tank extends transversely across the range, so that every 
house has a good supply of water in the centre. The two larger houses 
have eight rows of hot water pipes, and are filled with batches of imported 
Cattleya labiata, Schroedere, Triane, Harrisoniana, and others, 
Dendrobium Dalhousieana, and a variety of miscellaneous subjects, all in 
thriving condition, but mostly out of flower. 
The smaller houses have four rows of pipes, and the first house contains 
the special varieties of Cattleyas, for which the establishment is famous. 
Numerous choice white forms were pointed out, including C. labiata, 
Trianz, Schroedere, Mossize, Warneri, Gaskelliana, Mendelii, including the 
one called Stuart Low, one of the finest yet seen, the fine white form of C. 
Loddigesii known as Stanley’s var., in sheath, the rare C. Warscewiczil 
rochellensis, Frau Melanie Beyrodt, and Firmin Lambeau, the latter a 
choice thing which received a First-class Certificate and a Gold Medal from 
the R.H.S. Show in rg12. Others pointed out were C. O’Brieniana alba, 
the form of C. Hardyana with white sepals and petals, and a good batch of 
C. Dusseldorfii Undine. The richly-coloured C. Whitei was in bloom, and 
C. intermedia coerulea was just over. A good plant of C. Ballantineana was 
