38 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FenruaRry, 1917. 
system opposed to the wants and habits of the family. It has been 
subsequently proved that those plants that had been growing on the 
mountain chains of New Grenada, and sent by collectors down the river,. 
Magdalena, to the ports either of Santa Martha or Carthagena, have come 
home in comparative safety, so that, if judiciously packed, these Alpine 
Orchids may be considered virtually safe after being placed on board the 
mail steamers. The countries to which the choicest of the Odontoglossums 
are indigenous are among the most mountainous in the world, and, 
although this kind of vegetation does not reach the loftiest summits or the 
line of perpetual snow on the peaks of the Cordilleras and the crown of the 
Andes, yet it verges towards it. Look to the provinces of Ecuador, 
Guatemala, Peru, and New Grenada, and it is not uncommon to find many 
of the plants in question ranging between 4000 and 10,000 feet altitude. 
Bogota and its vicinity comprises a rich field of Orchideous treasures, which 
has been largely gathered from for European stoves, and it is as nearly as 
possible gooo feet above the sea level, while according to the best and most 
reliable information the temperature rarely exceeds 60°, and not rarely falls 
towards the freezing point. The climate is mild, agreeable, and salubrious, 
and far less variable as to extremes than that of our own country.” He 
then detailed a course of rational treatment under which his own success 
had been attained, which might almost have been written to-day. 
An account of Orchid sales affords some idea as to the plants then 
commonly grown and the prices obtained :— 
SALE oF OrcHIDs.—Several sales of established Orchids have recently 
taken place at Stevens’. In that of Mr. Cooper, Alpha House, Coburg Road, 
the highest price realised for a single lot was for those of Phalaenopsis 
Schilleriana and amabilis, the specimens of which fetched about £9- 
Aérides Lindleyanum superbum realised 8 guineas; other lots fetched from 
12s. to £4. The whole lots, of which there were in all some 422, fetched 
£454 16s. 6d. Among duplicates, selected from the collections of Mr. 
Rucker and Mr. Day, a very fine plant of the spotted variety of Odonto- 
glossum Pescatorei fetched as much as £25. The spotted variety of 
Cypripedium eburneum (Cymbidium must have been intended) realised 
#12, and a fine plant of C. caudatum 14 gs.; for Veitch’s variety of Vanda 
suavis, £7 155. was obtained; the Fox-brush Aérides sold for a similar sum, 
and altogether for some 220 lots £521 6s. 6d. was realised. In the late 
Mr. Blandy’s collection, which has also recently been brought to the 
hammer, no such prices as those just mentioned, however, were obtained for 
individual lots, which ranged between 10s. and £5; nevertheless, for some 
374 lots as much as £645 was obtained. Among duplicates from Mr. 
Bassett's collection, a fine plant of Trichopilia crispa fetched £22, and 
another of Odontoglossum Phalznopsis (now Miltonia) £16; O. nevium 
