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approviata, &c. M. coccinea and its varieties have been a mass of colour, 
but were fast going over. It is remarkable how well Masdevallias do in this 
house, and Mr. White attributes this partly to keeping the plants rather 
drier at the root than is sometimes considered necessary. Here, too, is a 
small batch of hybrid Odontoglossums, found seven years ago as tiny seedlings 
on a pot of O. maculatum from the Buchan collection. One of them 
flowered a few weeks ago, and proved to be a form of O. X Wilckeanum. 
Other interesting things in flower were Meiracyllium gemmez, Stenoglottis 
longifolia, Pleurothallis Grobyi, and Colax jugosus, one flower of the latter, 
having changed to green, told of successful fertilisation, and as the beautiful 
Zygopetalum X Perrenoudii was the pollen parent, it is hoped that some- 
thing good may result from the cross. 
In the Warm Departments many interesting things were in bloom; 
Phalaenopsis Marie with a panicle of sixteen flowers, Aérides expansum 
Leonie, Renanthera matutina, a fine plant of Cirrhopetalum Cumingii 
with forty spikes, nearly over, the remarkable Bulbophyllum barbigerum, 
a good Selenipedium  X_ grande, Cypripediums Druryi, Victoria- 
Mariz, and Chamberlainianum, a fine clump of C. barbatum Warneri, 
C. superbiens with divided lip, a good C. Mastersianum, and numerous 
other species and hybrids which it would be tedious to enumerate. 
Cattleya Warscewiczii was represented by eight fine spikes of bloom, 
other noteworthy forms being C. dolosa and C. Schilleriana. The most 
striking Dendrobiums were a well-flowered D. crystallinum, D. glomeratum, 
D. suavissimum with fourteen fine spikes, D. tortile, D. cariniferum, and 
D. sanguinolentum, and of Odontoglossums, the handsome O. X_ excellens 
Sandere with ten flowers, O. X cristatellum and O. apterum candidulum. 
Among miscellaneous subjects were noted two plants of the rare little 
Epidendrum Endresii, E. Medusa, E. Wallisii, well-flowered, the striking 
Ornithocephalus grandiflorus, the rare O. Warscewiczii (bifrons), Oncidium 
nubigenum, Disa X kewensis, Luisia volucris and L. Cantharis, Platyclinis 
filiformis with 94 young spikes, Masdevallia Wendlandiana, which thrives 
in intermediate temperature, well-flowered Angraecum falcatum, and 
numerous others which must be passed over unmentioned. 
One or two cultural hints are worth recording. Mr. White has been 
trying American peat (the roots of Osmunda) for Miltonias, and finds them 
do better in it than anything else. Lelia anceps also thrives, but Cattleyas 
do not root well in it, and those tried in it have deteriorated, and are being 
put back into ordinary peat. A plant of C. Bowringiana in English peat 
has not been potted for seven years, and is still as vigorous as ever. Vanda 
Amesiana and V. Kimballiana thrive remarkably well in intermediate 
temperature, better than under either warm or cool treatment. 
The seedlings must not be passed over entirely, as they are a most 
