356 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, 1914. 
@ KO) SIR JEREMIAH COLMAN, BART., V.M.H. Soe 
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IR JEREMIAH COLMAN, Bart., V.M.H., to whom we have much 
pleasure in dedicating the present volume, and whose portrait appears 
as the Frontispiece, has long been one of our most enthusiastic and 
successful amateur Orchidists, and his collection at Gatton Park, Reigate, 
is rich in showy species and botanical rarities, as well as in hybrids—the 
latter for the most part raised in the collection—its excellence being 
apparent from the groups exhibited at the principal Shows of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, as well as at some of the fortnightly meetings. 
Dendrobiums have long been favourites at Gatton, and the success with 
which they are grown has been demonstrated by some magnificent groups 
that have been staged in the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster. Sir 
Jeremiah has been a member of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee since 1899, 
and ten years later was elected a Vice-Chairman. The collection was for 
some years under the care of Mr. W. P. Bound, and latterly under that of 
Mr. J. Collier, and some idea of its richness may be formed from accounts 
which have appeared in our pages (xiii. PP- 344-346; Xv. pp. 250-252; XVI. pp- 
294-295), and it may be added that Gatton Park is one of the few places 
where the remarkable Arachnanthe Cathcartii and the very curious 
Dendrobium cucumerinum are successfully grown. 
AN ABNORMAL ODONTOGLOssUM.—A curious spike of Odontoglossum 
eximium var. Stanleyi (armainvillierense x crispum) is sent by Messrs. 
Swan & Price, Keyfield Nurseries, St. Albans, in which the three lower 
flowers are abnormal, the petals being apparently missing, while the eight 
others are normal. The five uppermost flowers have a very broad white 
margin and a large central red-purple blotch, but in the three next the 
sepals are more elongated, and the blotches much broken up and irregular, 
as in the sepals of the abnormal basal flowers. The cause is not apparent, 
for Mr. Price remarks that they have flowered the same plant for five years, 
and it has always been normal before, and that it is strong and in good 
health. And he adds: “If I had sold the plant from the painting, and the 
purchaser had seen the first flower before the others opened, I think the 
plant would have been returned to us as incorrect.” As regards the 
arrangement of the markings the difference quite corresponds to that of the 
two figures of Odontoglossum crispum Queen of the Earth figured in our 
r6th volume, the five upper flowers being comparable with the figure om 
page 232, and the others with that on page 233, as they appeared two years 
later. In this case, however, both kinds of flowers are borne together. It 
will be interesting to see how the plant behaves another year. 
