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and his gardener, Mr. Woore, is equally enthusiastic, and has been very 
successful too. Special pains have been taken to keep the atmosphere well 
supplied with moisture, and at the same time to secure proper ventilation. 
A hygrometer is suspended in each house, and indeed is considered in- 
dispensable, because one can see in an instant whether the atmosphere is in 
a proper condition, and this is a point of the first importance in the culture 
of these beautiful plants. 
G. SHORLAND BALL, EsgQ.’s COLLECTION. 
Within a comparatively short distance of the preceding may be found 
another very interesting collection, which is pretty regularly represented 
at the meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society, 
namely, that of G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow. Here are 
about five well-arranged houses, in which we found a good general collection 
in excellent condition, and a beautiful display of flowers. 
The Dendrobium house was quite a picture, so numerous were the 
plants in flower, though a few were past for the season, among which we 
cannot refrain from mentioning two superb plants of D. Falconeri, each of 
which had borne about 360 flowers, and they must have presented a brilliant 
spectacle when at their best. Among those in flower were D. nobile . 
nobilius, D. n. Amesiz, D. n. Cypheri, D. n. Cooksonianum, D. n. Sander- 
ianum, D. n. Backhouseanum, and various examples of the type. Nor 
must we forget the distinct and charming D. n. Ballianum, which is 
naturally well looked after here. Several plants of D. Wardianum were a 
mass of flowers, and with them was a splendid example of the natural 
hybrid D. X Waltoni, which came out of the same importation, and was 
not recognized until it flowered, and in profusion too. Some plants of D.— 
aureum were very brilliant, and we also noted D. Findlayanum, D, Devon- 
ianum, a good D. primulinum, D. cariniferum, and D. crassinode album. 
Among those not in flower was D. spectabile in fine condition. Hybrids 
were also present in quantity, and included various forms of D. X Ains- 
worthii, X Rubens, xX Aspasia, X Schneiderianum, X melanodiscus, X 
Juno, X Luna, X rhodostoma, &c., altogether making a most brilliant 
display. 
An adjacent house devoted to Cypripedes and other plants contained 
many fine things, including a good Coelogyne pandurata bearing a fine spike 
of nine buds, two good plants of the graceful Angreum Sanderianum, one 
of which was figured at page 152 of our last issue, Diacrium bicornutum 
with six spikes, Phalaenopsis Lueddemanniana, and a splendid piece of 
Bulbophyllum grandiflorum not now in flower. Cypripediums were nicely 
represented, and included two Paphiopedilum xX Deedmanianum, one 
having three expanded flowers on the spike, the rare P. Druryi, P. 
barbatum with 13 flowers, P. Lawrenceanum, P. Argus, P. x _ selligerum 
