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&c. On these small matters the success of Orchid growing largely depends, 
and if the temperatures and atmospheric moisture receive. proper attention 
success is bound to follow. We have not yet reached normal conditions, 
but we may look forward toa better time coming for Orchid culture in the 
not distinct future. 
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FEW interesting Orchids are sent from the collection of J. J. 
Neale, Esq., of Kenton, near Exeter (gr. Mr. E. Swinden). Miltonia 
vexillaria Queen Alexandra is a charming white ‘form of the species, the 
flower sent being finely developed, and one of a spike of six. Two flowers 
of a fine round form of Odontoglossum crispum, froma spike of ten, are 
also noteworthy, the pure white petals being nicely fringed, and the sepals 
nearly as broad, with about three light purple spots above the middle. The 
lip is broad, with a chestnut brown blotch in front of the crest, numerous 
small spots at the sides, anda dotted basal margin, this character suggesting 
some possible O. Hunnewellianum in the ancestry. A spike of Gongora 
_ galeata, Rchb. f., recalls an interesting old plant, perhaps better known in 
gardens under Lindley’s name of Acropera Loddigesil, though the genus 
Acropera is hardly distinct from Gongora. The flowers are buff-brown, 
and produced in pendulous spikes. Lastly, there is a Lycaste, with light- 
green sepals and a white lip, which belongs to L. leucantha, Klotzsch, a 
Costa Rican species which is not common in gardens. 
Mr. Neale writes that he is just commencing to build a large Cool house, 
as the climate near Exeter is rather warm, and Odontoglossums do not 
succeed well unless in a specially constructed house. It is interesting to 
hear of renewed activity after this disastrous war, and we have little doubt 
that the experiment will prove successful, for Mr. Neale is an experienced 
Orchidist, and has long grown a varied collection in which : botanical 
Orchids occupy a prominent place. He is fortunate in having an 
abundance of sphagnum moss and peat fibre on the estate, which in such 
difficult times is important from an’ Orchid lover’s standpoint. 
ORCHIDS FROM EXETER. ise 
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HyBRIDS TRUE FROM SEED.—We do not remember to have seen a truly 
cleistogamous flower of any hybrid Orchid, but there is a record that flowers 
of Calanthe gigas and Epidendrum O’Brienianum have set capsules 
apparently without any external aid, and that in the latter case seedlings 
were raised from the capsules so produced, and the resulting progeny 
conformed strictly to the parent plant. It is apparently another case of a 
hybrid coming true from seed. 
