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the gardener, attributes this to the treatment adopted. The plant is top- 
dressed each year with fresh peat and sphagnum, which keeps the compost 
sweet ; and he avoids anything like a severe rest, witholding water gradually, 
and never letting the plant shrivel to any appreciable extent. It is grown 
with others in a house chiefly devoted to tomatoes. Five years ago, when 
Mr. Moorby took charge of the collection, it was a starved specimen in an 
8-inch pot, with bulbs about ten inches high, but now the longest ones are 
said to measure 4} feet, so that there can be no question about the success 
of the treatment adopted. It is always a pleasure to see a really well- 
grown specimen, and many of our readers will be glad to have an accurate 
representation of the one now under consideration. 
MR, BULL’S ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 
Mr. WittiaM BuLu’s Annual Exhibition of Orchids, from May to July, 
forms an admirable illustration of what can be done with a plentiful supply 
of showy Orchids and light foliage plants in an ordinary house, where the 
straight lines cannot be got rid of, and only neutralised to some extent by 
the arrangement of the plants. A visit, early in June, to the large show 
house revealed the usual assemblage of the well-known showy species of 
the season, the general effect being enhanced by the use of a mirror at 
either end, which appears to increase the length of the vistas on either side. 
On looking round and going into details, one is able to single out a number 
of forms which, either by their superior merit or rarity, attract special 
attention, and a few of these are here recorded. 
Such species as Odontoglossum crispum, Miltonia vexillaria, Cattleya 
Mossi and Lelia purpurata are, of course, represented in quantity, and 
by various forms, two varieties of the latter, L. p. bella and versicolor, being 
specially noted. The last named‘is a grand flower, having the petals veined 
with purple at the apex, and the lip very broad and dark, and is said to have 
changed hands at the price of 150 guineas. Among Odontoglossums we 
noted, among numerous others, a fine O. Xx Wilckeanum, O. X mulus 
crocatum, said to be the identical plant named by Reichenbach, O. 
Uroskinneri and O. Reichenheimii, and the graceful and beautiful O- 
citrosmum, a form of the latter, O. c. concolor, being remarkable for its deep 
rose-pink flowers, nearly uniform in tint, and darker in colour than O. ¢- 
roseum beside it. Oncidium was represented by some good O. macranthum, 
the handsome O. Gardneri, good forms of O. Papilio and Kramerianum, 
the charming O. cucullatum, and various others, and Dendrobium by the 
richly coloured D. clavatum, D. transparens, and other well-known forms. 
A very light form of Calanthe x Veitchii was curiously out of season } and 
