226 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A flower of Cypripedium Victoria-Maria from the collection of J. Hi. 
Collett, Esq., Guy’s Cliff, Wotton, Gloucester, has two staminodes, the 
usual one, and a second which replaces one of the anthers, the other being 
fertile, as usual. Another flower on the spike is normal. 
The Catalogue of Dr. Jessop’s collection of Orchids has been sent by 
Messrs. John. Cowan & Co., who are distributing the collection. It contains 
over 1,200 plants and many fine vzrieties. Messrs. Cowan are opening 
their Gateacre Nurseries for the sale of Orchids with this fine collection. 
It is interesting to record that the plant of Grammatophyllum speciosum 
in the collection Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, is throwing 
up three flower spikes, making, we believe, the third time that the plant has 
flowered in England. 
DIES ORCHIDIANZ, 
LooxkinG over my last copy of the Review I came across the article on the 
“Destructive collection of Orchids” (page 204), with suggestions as to 
means by which the wanton mischief described might be checked. Such 
wholesale destruction ought to be checked, but until the Government of 
Venezuela sees fit to intervene there seems little hope of improvement. But 
what interested me most was the account of how a number of seedling 
Cattleyas and Oncidium Papilio were rescued by the writer and affixed to 
young trees in his garden, where they have grown and flourished without 
the slightest care. I hope he will have some good flowers next season, and 
let us hear more about them. I wish they would grow on the trees in my 
garden. How easy it would if one only had to tie them.on to the branches, 
give water when necessary, and fight the cockroaches and other insects, 
which seem to be as fond of them as the grower himself, though in another 
sense. One would probably find time for hybridising, and might raise new 
crosses or increase the stock of some of the valuable hybrids which have 
appeared in Europe, but still remain rare. Perhaps the writer will let US 
know of any success which he may attain in this direction. 
Last month (page 196) I alluded to the new blue Jubilee Orchid as one 
which we should probably hear of again, and my remarks have come true 
sooner than I anticipated. It has appeared at the meetings, both at London 
and Manchester, and this is how it is reported :—At the former we read that 
E. Ashworth, Esq., sent ‘a flower of the new Dendrobium Victoria Regina, 
which, if only a botanical plant, is decidedly of the blue tint represented by 
the collector, and, when established, will be pretty enough ” (Gard. Chron. 
