94 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1916, 
insigne Sanderianum, C. Pyramus var. Prince Albert (Hera X Mrs. Wm. 
Mostyn), with a purple suffusion on the dorsal sepal, and others. The 
Lycastes were making a bright display, and it was interesting to compare a 
good plant of L. Imschootiana with its parents L. Skinneri and L. cruenta- 
The pair of strong spines at the apex of the bulb of L. cruenta were pointed 
out as half-developed in the hybrid, another quite intermediate character, 
for they are not developed in L. Skinneri.  L. Skinneri alba was very 
beautiful, and there were five good plants of Bifrenaria Harrisoniz in 
flower and bud. 
In another Odontoglossum house we noted a number of healthy 
seedlings from choice crosses, with forms of O. crispum and hybrids in 
spike or flower, and among Odontiodas were plants of the beautiful O- 
Royal-Gem, and O. Joan Fowler’s var., the latter a very yellow flower, with 
zones of red blotches on the segments, a strikingly beautiful and distinct 
form, and of excellent shape. 
One house has been specially laid out for raising seedlings in, and 
contains a number of glazed cases in which the seeds are germinated on 
canvas stretched over balls of sphagnum moss. Here were seedlings in 
almost every stage from the tiniest green globules upwards, the larger ones 
being in small pots on the stages. Mr. Gurney Fowler has taken up the 
fascinating work of hybridising with great enthusiasm, and keeps 4 
systematic record of all his crosses, these being recorded in a book by @ 
series of running numbers, which are added to the label of each plant, and 
thus the history of each can be traced by means of the record book. 
In the office we were shown a Card Index containing the history of each 
individual cross, and to which such details are subsequently added as it 
may seem desirable to record. These records will be invaluable when the 
seedlings reach the flowering stage and suitable names have to be provided. 
We also saw a fine series of paintings of certificated plants and others in 
the collection, and as these represent largely the plants that are being used 
in hybridising they will become increasingly valuable as time goes on. 
The Cool house at the back of the Corridor is largely devoted te 
Cymbidiums, Masdevallias, and other Cool-growing kinds, among which @ 
few were in bloom, especially among the Cymbidiums, and a greatef 
number promised a display of flowers later on. We were particularly 
interested to see the Cymbidium glebelandense, raised in the collection 
from C. Schrcederi X insigne. Several plants were beginning to flower, 
and present the same intermediate characters as does the natural hybrid C. 
Cooperi, which evidently arose from the crossing of the same two species, 
which grow intermixed in Annam. Other plants in the house were less 
particularly noticed, chiefly through lack of time, but we may have a“ 
opportunity of saying more about them on some subsequent occasion. 
