202 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT MESSRS. VEITCH’S. 
Orcuips have long been one of the prominent features of the Royal Exotic 
Nursery, and the removal some years ago of the rich collection of hybrid 
seedlings to the purer air of Langley has made no difference to the 
collection of established plants, which invariably make a good show, and 
particularly at this season. The rockwork house on the occasion of a visit 
early in June contained a most attractive display, and the method of showing 
them here adopted is far more effective than the old-fashioned one of 
staging them. Some growers prefer to let their Orchids flower in the 
houses in which they are grown, holding that their removal to a Show 
house when in bloom is prejudicial to the health of the plants, but with 
proper care the injury, in the majority of cases, is inappreciable, and when 
a Show house is provided the rockwork arrangement is such a great 
improvement that the wonder is it is not more frequently adopted. It forms 
a far more graceful setting for the plants than an unsightly stage, as it 
provides nooks and crannies for graceful ferns and foliage plants to grow in, 
and owing to the irregular surface suitable spots can be found on which 
specimen plants, or those with long graceful flower-spikes, can show to the 
best advantage. The rockwork, however, only contained part of the 
interesting plants mentioned in the following notes, as most of the Orchid 
houses contained numerous plants in flower. 
Among hybrids raised by Messrs. Veitch were a fine plant of the 
handsome Cymbidium X eburneo-Lowianum, the brilliant Epiphronitis X 
Veitchii, Masdevallia X Asmodia, Selenipedium x grande, a fine plant with 
three spikes, and a number of good Cypripediums. A good plant of the 
rare little Oncidium pulchellum, with its white and purple flowers, was very 
attractive, also a batch of nine plants of O. pulvinatum, bearing large 
panicles of orange yellow flowers, the graceful O. phymatochilum, several 
good O.ampliatum, the handsome O. Kramerianum, and O. concolor. Two 
plants of Coelogyne Dayana each bore eight graceful racemes. A dozen 
plants of Dedrobium Bensone were loaded with flowers, and of D. 
Phalenopsis twice as many plants were already in bloom, showing the 
usual amount of variation. Several plants of the brilliant D. glomeratum 
were also in flower. Miltonia Roezlii and Cypripedium superbiens were 
each represented by a good batch of plants, also the brilliant Epidendrum 
vitellinum, Masdevallia coccinea and Veitchiana, Odontoglossum cordatum, — 
crispum, and others. We also noted O. Harryanum, well-flowered plants 
of Lycaste Deppei, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Cattleya luteola, C. Warneri, 
C. Walkeriana, and numbers of the usual showy species which flower at 
this season. 
