“4 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Janvary, 1915. 
airy grace and tender.colouring not being equalled by the massive and more 
formal Cattleyas. Mixed collections in flower, including even small or 
curious botanical species, are more artistic, instructive and interesting than 
the somewhat monotonous assemblage of Cattleyas, no matter how 
gorgeous their colouring may be. 
Just now I note in flower in my corridor or piazza, Stanhopea sp. from 
Peru, the latest flowering Stanhopea I have, and very fragrant. Dendrobium 
Goldiei, D. bigibbum, D. superbiens, D. Phalzenopsis, the winter- flowering 
form of D. formosum, D. mutabile, Trichopilia sp. collected by the writer 
in woods near Panama, -Aspasia sp. from the same region, Angraecum 
pellucidum, Coelogyne speciosa, C. Mayeriana, Calanthe vestita and 
varieties, Aérides Lawrencez, Vanda lamellata Boxallii, Chondrorhyncha 
Lipscombiz, collected near Panama, Oncidium Kramerianum, O. 
iridifolium, Bulbophyllum sp., Phaius sp. from Amboyna, flowers pure 
white with yellow on lip, Brassia Lanceana, Brassavola nodosa, a very 
large variety from Panama, a pretty Gongora I collected in Veraguas near 
the coast, a Cycnoches or two, and some interesting Catasetums, which 
quickly attract the bright emerald-coloured bees which are never seen till 
the Catasetums come into flower. I am sure this modest flowering affords 
me more pleasure and interest than the same number of the most gorgeous 
Cattleyas. 
AERIDES LAWRENCE4, a lovely thing, and perhaps the finest species of 
the genus, is grown in a Spanish cedar box, perforated at the bottom and 
sides with a number of inch holes, and filled with good-sized pieces of brick 
or stone. All the strong-growing species are managed in the same way, in 
moderate shade, giving no trouble whatever, and the smaller growers in 
blocks, hung up in light shade, and Saccolabiums similarly, with the 
exception of S. Blumei, which appears to do better in perforated boxes with 
rubble. Vanda suavis, V. tricolor, V. luzonica, and V. Lowii, also 
Stauropsis lissochiloides, are treated in the same way. 
Vanda teres in a box with rubble and leaf mould, with eight foot rods 
nailed to the corners of the box, up which the plant has climbed and made 
many branches, is standing in fuli sun the year through. Last season I 
think fifty or a hundred flowers were open at the same time, as there are 
some twenty-five branches and stems to my largest plant. Renanthera 
coccinea 1s managed in the same way. This, however, is yet but a modest 
plant some three feet high, and has not flowered. R. Storiei came to me 
from the Philippines about eight years ago, and, as the plants had 
suffered greatly in transit, and having but few roots, it took considerable 
time before they got strong enough to flower. Now, however, they are 
tremendous affairs, the highest being seven feet with several branches, and 
the stems almost as thick as one’s finger. Very grand they are when in 
