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Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, and received an Award of Merit (O.R., v. p. 255). 
It was then recorded as having blush-white flowers, with a tinge of yellow 
on the disc of the lip, and a small lilac mark in front. 
War Items.—Orchidists, says the Gardeners’ Chronicle, will be interested 
to hear news of M. Chas. Maron, the well-known raiser of Orchids of 
Brunoy, France, who has officiated with many of them at the International 
Exhibitions both in England and on the Continent. M. Maron writes that 
all the male members of his family are away on active service. Assistance 
in the Orchid houses being difficult to get, he is almost alone, and can only 
do the most important work. Nevertheless, he says the plants do not seem 
much the worse for lack of attention. He has some specially interesting 
things which he is looking forward to flowering in the autumn, notably 
crosses between Brassocattleya Orpheus and Cattleya Warscewiczii alba, 
and other crosses of this pure white form of C. Warscewiczil. 
ig CATTLEYA WARSCEWICZII FRAU MELANIE BEYRODT. q 
HIS is one of the most beautiful Cattleyas in cultivation, as the large 
and well-shaped white flowers are set off very effectively by the broad 
purple front lobe of the lip, itself neatly margined with white. It is 
interesting to note that a group of eight well-grown plants from the 
collection of John Leeman, Esq., West Bank House, Heaton Mersey, 
appeared at the meeting of the Manchester Orchid Society held on July 
22nd last, making a very effective display. Two good plants were also 
-exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Hall on August 4th, from the 
collection of H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill. The variety has 
an excellent constitution, and lends itself well to propagation, for a good 
many plants are now known, and it may be interesting to give its history. 
The earliest recorded appearance that we know of is July, 1904, when it 
was exhibited at the Holland House Show of the R.H.S. by Herr Otto 
Beyrodt, Marienfelde, Berlin, and was awarded a First-class Certificate. A 
figure was then published (Journ. Hort., 1904, ii. p. 257), in which its 
general character is well shown. 
How long previously the variety may 
‘have been known we cannot say, but three years later Mr. J. M. Black, 
speaking of Orchids at Enfield, alluded to Cattleya gigas Frau Melanie 
‘Beyrodt as ‘“‘the famous albino which this firm (Hugh Low & Co.) has 
placed in nearly all the good Cattleya collections in Europe ”’ (O.R., Xv. P- 
144). He added: “ This plant has a wonderful constitution, and simply 
delights in being cut up. To illustrate this, a leading bulb which had been 
cut off before last growing season made two growths nearly equal to itself 
