228 THE ORCHID REVIE WV. 
Rex is making a fine display, eight plants being in flower and others 
following on. The best spike noticed carried five flowers. Several plants 
of C. Warscewiczii were also out, one beautifully mottled form bearing three 
spikes and an aggregate of ten flowers. The beautiful Lelio-cattleya Xx 
Baroness Schréder bore two fine flowers, and it is interesting to note that 
this hybrid grows and flowers twice a year. Other fine things noted were 
L.-c., XX, Timora, - L-c.“X callistoglsssa, Lelia xanthina, Cattleya 
Eldorado, Gaskelliana, and C. x calummata. It is very interesting to note 
the vigorous root action of many of the plants, which shows how well they 
are looked after. In one case a bundle of roots at least a yard long was 
tied to a stick attached to the basket as a support. Such roots are 
encouraged in every possible way, and are probably of more use to the plant 
than the few which remain in the compost. 
A minute black beetle, about the size of a pin’s head, which eats the 
growing points of the roots, has been found rather troublesome to keep in 
check here, and it would be interesting to know more about this insect. 
It is not the well-known Cattleya-fly, with black shining body, which has 
also been seen here, as at so many other places, and as it hides in the 
compost fumigation is useless, while its minute size and its habit of falling 
at the slightest touch makes hand-picking very difficult. By the way, it 
has been noticed that the fly which makes round galls on Cattleya roots 
is a distinct species, with yellow body and white wings, and it is evident 
that Orchid growers have several distinct insect enemies to guard against. 
Of interesting Odontoglossums in flower were several fine O. Harryanum, 
the true old O. odoratum, and O. ramosissimum, while throwing up spikes 
we noted the richly coloured O. x Wilckeanum Godefroye, O. Wallisii, and 
O. Edwardii. Among Oncidiums we noted the handsome O. spilopterum 
in flower, while the rare O. loxense, O. aurosum, O. incurvum and its 
variety album were throwing up strong spikes. The best plant of O. incurvum 
had no less than twenty spikes. Ornithidium coccineum was flowering well, 
and is a very remarkable as well as pretty plant, for it has two kinds of 
growth, one an ordinary pseudobulb, the other a leafy flowering shoot, and 
the latter on the plant in question has produced a succession of flowers for 
the last four or five years. The beautiful Dendrobium Phalznopsis has 
commenced to flower, and succeeding plants will keep up the succession 
throughout the autumn. D. Dearei, D. ciliatum, and D. secundum were 
also in flower, together with Cynoches chlorochilon, some fine Vanda teres 
and V. suavis, Promenza xanthina, Epidendrum x dellense and cinna- 
barimum, Maxillaria venusta, Masdevallia racemosa, Lelia monophylla, 
Trichopilia fragrans, Sobralia xantholeuca, the handsome Cypripedium X 
Massaianum with three-flowered spike, and a number of other fine things. 
The handsome Mormodes luxatum bore a very fine spike of unexpanded 
