206 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT BURFORD. 
SomE idea of the richness of Sir Trevor Lawrence's choice collection can 
be formed from the interesting groups which are staged at the Drill Hall, 
Westminster, from time to time, and it may safely be affirmed that something 
of interest may be seen at Burford throughout the year (a rather full account 
of the collection was given at pages 14-19 of our first volume). At the 
present time the beautiful hybrid Vanda X Miss Joaquim forms the chief 
centre of attraction, and Mr. White must be congratulated on being the 
first to flower it in Europe. As a note will be found on another page — 
it need not be further described here, beyond saying that the flowers 
have almost the shape of V. Hookeriana, with the colour of V. teres. A 
group of the latter with an aggregate of fourteen spikes served admirably to 
show its distinctness, but the other parent was not in flower. The rare 
white V. teres candida was also in flower. 
Even more interesting in some respects it was to see a plant of the 
new Eulophiella Peetersiana, with a pair of sturdy young growths, with six 
and eleven leaves, ranging from 3 to 4 feet long by 3 to 3} inches broad. 
It has already been described in these pages (pp. 67, ror), and is certainly 
a most distinct and remarkable Orchid. Coming from Madagascar, Mr ~ 
White naturally chose a good position in the Warm house, and the plant 
has started with such vigour that we may hope to see the flowers in due 
season. And while touching on plants out of flower, we may mention that a 
plant of the remarkable Dendrobium spectabile, whose history was given at 
page 356 of our last volume, is growing nicely, and judging by appearances, 
its flowering is now only a question of time. The remarkable Masdevallia 
deorsa is also nicely established, and its first flowering in Europe is awaited 
with interest. It is pendulousin habit, and an attempt to make it grow 
upright, like its allies, only resulted in a young leaf turning downwards into 
the compost and losing its tip. The leaves are purple underneath, and 
dark, somewhat glaucous green above. Pleurothallis strupifolia, not 1 
flower, was pointed out as having a similiar habit. Very interesting it was, 
too, to see a nice healthy little plant of Cypripedium Fairrieanum, with 
two smaller pieces which have been taken from it. All are growing nicely, 
in intermediate temperature with C. x Leeanum, a fact worthy of note in 
the case of so valuable and capricious a plant. It has previously been 
noted that it does not succeed so well in the Warm house as in intermediate 
temperature. 
In the Masdevallia House, many interesting species were in flower, 
including three plants of the beautiful M. rosea, M. Davisii with four 
flowers, M. X Stella with sixteen, several plants of M. X Courtauldiana, 
the deep ruby-red M. Rolfeana, M. xX Ajax, M. Reichenbachiana, M. 
