Aucust, 1916.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 199 
Some of the Odontoglossums sold well, O. Pescatorei Lady Holford going 
for 12 guineas, and O. crispum Magnum Bonum and Raymond Crawshay for 
14 gs. each. Among other varieties of O. crispum we note that Queen 
Empress and Leonard Perfect fetched 11 gs. each, Rosy Queen, which 
gained a medal at the last Ghent Quinquennial as the best unspotted 
crispum in the Show, 10 gs., Imperator and Franz Masereel, g gs. each, 
Venus, 7} gs., and Milicent and xanthotes each 5 gs. At the latter price 
went a fine plant of O. chiriquense (figured at page 177), while a smaller 
one sold for 3 gs. 
_ Among Cattleyas, 10 guineas was paid for C. Fabia alba, while C. Fabia 
ignescens fetched 7 gs., C. Magali Sander 8} gs., C. Snow Queen, 73 gs., 
C. Brenda, 7 gs., C. Cooksoniz alba, 6} gs., C. Cowaniz alba, 6 and 7 gs., 
C. Mossize Wageneri, 5 gs., C. Warscewiczii Frau Melanie Beyrodt 33 gs., 
and a hybrid from C. Myra Peeters X Warneri alba, 7 gs. 
Among other showy things, Lzliocattleya Golden Glory and Cymbidium 
Lowianum Pitt’s var. fetched 10 guineas each, the rare C. Parishii Sander, 
7 gs., Miltonia Charlesworthii in bloom and Brassocattleya Cliftonii, 74 gs. 
each, Miltonia vexillaria memoria Baron Schréder, 7 gs., Odontioda Brad- 
shawize Cookson’s var., 54 gs-, Cypripedium Alcibiades illustre and C. 
Carola 4 gs. each, Lzliocattleya Helius and Sophrocattleya Pearl, 3% gs. 
each, Dendrobium Dalhousieanum luteum 4 gs., D. fimbriatum oculatum 
Westonbirt var. 3 gs., and D. illustre, 2 gs. 
Among remarkable botanical Orchids, Zygopetalum Roeblingianum, 
part of the original plant from the Wigan collection, sold for £2, Vanda 
Sanderiana, 35s., Meomoorea irrorta and Bulbophyllum dichromum, 24s. 
each, Anguloa Cliftonii, 13s., Cirrhopetalum Mastersianum, 21Is., C. 
longissimum, 12s., C. Amesianum, 7s., and Coelogyne Lawrenceana, 5s. 
We also note that 25 plants of the hardy Orchis foliosa sold for 20s., while 
a batch of a dozen Cypripedium Maudie fetched 5 guineas. 
Some of the Orchid books sold well, a set of the Orchid Album going for 
twelve guineas, one of Goosens’ Dictionnaire I conographique des Orchidées for 
£7 17s. 6d., Reichenbachia, 6 gs., Lindenia, £5 Ios., The Genus Masdevallia, 
£4 1s., Reichenbach’s Orchidacea Media Europea, £2 55. Bateman’s 
Monograph of Odontoglossum, £2, his Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants, 
1g., Thouars’ Orrchidées de Iles A frique, 328. 6d., the first eighteen volumes 
of the Orchid Review, £4 14s. 6d., the Orchid Stud-Book, 5s., Williams’ 
Orchid Growers’ Manual, ed. 7, 15s-, &c. We also note that a copy of 
Edward’s Botanical Register, 33 volumes, in which so many Orchids were 
figured by Lindley, fetched £28. The set of over 200 Orchid paintings 
presented by John Leeman, Esq., was purchased for Kew for £20. 
Altogether it is estimated that the funds of the British Red Cross Society 
and the Order of St. John will benefit to the extent of nearly £2,000. 
