THE ORCHID REVIEW. 245 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
THE Orchids of the present season, though somewhat few in point of 
numbers, are particularly brilliant. Examples of the handsome Cattleya 
Gaskelliana and C. Warscewiczii are still flowering, anda few good examples 
of each make a handsome display. The C. Dowiana aurea is beginning to 
open, and will provide a succession of bloom for some weeks, its light 
yellow sepals and richly-coloured and veined lip forming one of the most 
striking contrasts to be found in the whole family. C. x Hardyana, of 
course, flowers with the two preceding species, from which it has been 
derived, and, like them, the flowers appear rather earlier or later according 
to circumstances. The fine weather of the present summer seems to have 
suited them and other autumn-flowering species well. Examples of 
C. Eldorado must also be included, and the white variety, Wallisii, is 
especially beautiful. Some fine plants of C. Leopoldi are now producing 
large heads of flowers, and, owing to the spotted segments and rich purple 
lip, are very effective. C. velutina is very distinct in colour, and, when 
well grown, very striking, and C. bicolor, which is remarkable for the 
absence of side lobes to the lip, is also flowering well. 
Lelia Dayana is a pretty little species which is just now flowering 
freely, and will be followed by L. pumila and its varieties. Examples of 
Lelio-cattleya x Schilleriana continue to bloom, and L.-c. xX elegans is 
commencing. The latter fine natural hybrid is rather variable in colour, 
and richly-coloured forms are still among the most highly prized of autumn- 
blooming Orchids, though two or three garden hybrids, also derived from 
Cattleya Leopoldi as one parent, are equally beautiful, and among them is 
C. X Atalanta, which flowers at about the same time. And we have now a 
crowd of summer and autumn-flowering Lzlio-cattleyas, some of which 
will brighten up the house during the present month. Epidendrum 
osmanthum is a striking Brazilian species now in bud. 
Miltonias are also to the front just now, those in flower including 
M. spectabilis and its richly-coloured variety Moreliana, M. Regnelii— 
smaller than the last and different in colour, but free flowering and very 
attractive—M. Clowesii, and M. candida. All of them repay any amount 
of trouble taken with them, and the two first are always highly esteemed. 
Several Oncidiums are also in flower, as the handsome O. incurvum, 
O. Schlimii, O. trulliferum, while several species of the popular crispum and 
varicosum group are also coming on. Some of these vary considerably in 
their period of flowering. 
Cool Orchids are not numerous just now, but in the warm house 
Dendrobium Phalznopsis is beginning to make a grand display, which will 
continue for weeks. It is unrivalled at this period, and is equally useful for 
