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‘flowers, and Sophrolelia x Veitchii was throwing up a spike. It is curious 
to note how much more vigorous a grower this is than the little Sophro- 
cattleya x Batemaniana beside it. 
Several useful cultural hints may be worth recording. For example, 
Epidendrum vitellinum thrives in the Masdevallia house, where it has been 
grown for six years. A small house largely devoted to the culture of 
Coelogyne cristata and its varieties is found to be just the place for the 
beautiful Trichopilia coccinea, while Odontoglossum grande flourishes on 
shelves at the back, near the glass. <A peculiarity about the pretty little 
Spathoglottis plicata Micholitzii is that the flowers are self-fertilising, and 
the pods ripen in a few weeks, while the seedlings come up like the 
proverbial mustard and cress. It was obtained in 1894, and already there 
are seedlings in various stages, some getting quite strong. In fact they 
scem to come up almost anywhere, and hybridists might take a note of the 
fact. Arachnanthe Cathcartii is a fine plant on a pillar in the centre of 
the warm Cypripedium house, and flowers freely at the proper season. 
Phaius Humblotii was formerly cultivated in the Phalaenopsis house, but 
did not succeed; now it is found to grow freely in a cool stove, where at 
night, especially, the temperature is much cooler. Odontoglossum 
coronarium is a fine healthy plant on a raft, and fiowers every year. 
It would be an easy matter to prolong these notes considerably were we 
to note all the interesting plants in the collection over which Mr. Ballantine 
so ably presides. 
ORCHIDS AT LANGLEY. 
THE establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, at Langley, near 
Slough, to which the hybrid Orchids were removed a few years ago, con- 
tinues to progress, and an additional house has been added, making four 
which are now filled with hybrid seedlings in all stages of development, from 
the tiny seedling up to those just on the point of flowering, forming one of 
the most interesting collections in existence. Of those which have already 
flowered several interesting ones were noted during a recent visit, including 
a batch of the charming and very variable Epidendrum x elegantulum, 
scarcely any two of them exactly alike, the fringed E. x Wallisio-ciliare, 
E. X O’Brienianum and its variety roseum, Epiphronitis x Veitchii, and a 
very handsome novelty, Epilzlia x radico-purpurata, whose parentage may 
be inferred from the name, now flowering for the first time. Phalznopsis x 
Hebe carried a beautiful spike of ten flowers. There were also the hand- 
some Lzlio-cattleya x Atalanta, L.-c. X Clonia, L.-c. x Ascania, Masde- 
vallia X Ajax, and its much darker variety superba, M. x Chelsoni, the 
