132 ° THE ORCHID REVIEW.  [Joty-Avcust, 1919, 
The Secretary announces that the Vases to be used for cut Orchid flowers 
and spikes, where it is not convenient for the plants to be exhibited, are now 
to hand, and the Committee invites exhibits from members. It should 
afford an opportunity to show the decorative value of Orchids as cut 
flowers, and we presume that sprays of fern or suitable foliage may be 
included. 
In an article under the heading ‘‘A Malayan Forest,” we note the 
following: ‘I need hardly say that this is the country for Orchids. They 
abound in every tree and rock, which, I am sorry to add, they do not in 
general adorn. Few of them have conspicuous flowers, the general aspect 
of their fleshy stems forcibly reminds one of half-withered cabbage stumps, 
Yet, as they will grow anywhere, there is a great taste for hanging them 
everywhere by amateur gardeners in the Straits Settlements. Thus verandas 
become places in which you can hardly walk with safety. These plants are 
perfect ants’ nests, with an occasional centoeas ready to invade the bed- 
rooms as soon as the rainy season sets in.” We fear the experience of the 
writer has been unfortunate. 
Can any reader inform us if the handsome Utricularia Endresii is still in 
cultivation? The allied U. montana is usually grown in baskets in the 
. Orchid house, a position for which it is eminently suited, though it cannot 
claim any relationship with the family. 
eel ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. eal 
[Orchids are named and qu gece answered vsabe os wi fee as Poison Correspondents are 
requested to give the native country or entage of pla An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
sent sf a reply by post is desired id tilesad AS ed "posted chests Pes used ), Subjects of special 
interest will be dealt with in the body of t ork], 
H D.—T flower i o ore Densoniana, Bens. and Rchb. f., a native of Burma, and 
now rather rare in cultiva 
very imeresig ——o hybrid, of which an account is held over. The - 
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significance of the remark a € parents is that we believe such plants are rarely found 
except where the parent speci - abs occur. It is doubtful if the seeds of terrestrial Orchids 
are Carri Hid Eg ar by the wind, or if so that they would then find’ suitable conditions for 
germination é 
M.J.G.—Quite peated a natural hybrid, and we are comparing it with the records, 
which are ae num 
E.W.T.— We area 6 Bt doubtful about the supposed Sophrolzlia Alcides, for coe iy 
the Sclaiotas has two leaves, but we will examine it further. Such anomalies do 
Photographs and drawings received with thanks.—E.C.; G.W.: E.D.M. We will 
attend to the other matter as early as possible. 
Several notes are unavoidably held over for a future issue. 
In ey to several correspondents who have written about bound volumes and bindit 
cas ret being still a to obtain them. At the end of June a large binding firm 
wrote that the pi hearts rand materials was such that they were unable to under~ 
them yet. will tr ter again, meantime we assure our subscribers that the delay ! 
equally i incowtenient to o CEeeres, and we know of others who are in-the same predicament. » 
