298 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Maynardii with three flowers, C. X Harrisianum, C. x Galatea, some good 
C. X Asburtoniz, one with a twin-flowered spike, C. Spicerianum, a good 
batch of C. insigne showing for flower, Epidendrum osmanthum, Oncidium 
trulliferum, a well-flowered O. ornithorhynchum, O. Harrisonianum, 
Selenipedium longifolium and S. xX Dominyanum, Cymbidium giganteum, 
Lelia Dayana, a well-flowered Ccelogyne fimbriata, Dendrobium bigibbum, 
and a series of plants bearing twenty spikes of D. Phalznopsis. A series of 
twice as many in an adjoining house, including one to which an Award of 
Merit was given by the R. H. S., shows that this beautiful species is a 
favourite here. Here also was noticed a batch of young seedlings of 
Sobralia macrantha X xantholeuca, hence S. X Veitchii. 
An adjoining house contained three good plants of Phalenopsis 
Esmeralda with an aggregate of eight racemes, the true old Cattleya 
guttata with a ten-flowered spike, C. Eldorado showing for flower, 
Dendrobium formosum, Catasetum Christyanum, several Oncidium Papilio, 
Miltonia candida and M. spectabilis Moreliana, Selenipedium xX Sedeni 
with several flowers in abnormal condition, a peculiarity often seen in this 
hybrid, and Cypripedium tonsum. 
In the Cool house there was not much in flower, but we noted a good 
specimen of Zygopetalum maxillare carrying five racemes, Restrepia 
maculata, Maxillaria Meleagris, Masdevallia Veitchiana and M. Chimera 
Roezlii, Odontoglossum cordatum, O. crispum, and O. X Andersonianum. 
Here also we saw several seedling Odontoglossums, the result of an 
experiment with O. crispum, but the pollen parent was unfortunately not 
recorded. Sophronitis grandiflora crossed with Cattleya Harrisoniana 
carried a good seed pod. 3 
Two houses are chiefly devoted to seedlings, and a nice healthy lot they 
are, some five thousand potted off in various stages up to the flowering 
one, and perhaps as many others still on the seed pots. The great majority 
are Cypripediums, but there is also a good batch of Cattleyas, and. their 
origin and history is carefully recorded in a pedigree book. A few Thunias, 
however, were pointed out as a curiosity, for there is no record of any cross 
with these, and it is thought that they may be the result of some stray 
capsule produced as the result of insect fertilisation, A useful arrangement 
which we noted for suspending the seedlings near the glass is a device of 
Mr. Appleton’s. It isa square shallow basket, made of twisted galvanised 
wire, with divisions to accommodate nine small pots, and a handle by 
which it is suspended. In this manner a large number of plants can be 
suspended at a suitable distance from the glass. 
We cannot attempt to enumerate the many interesting crosses which 
have been made, but some of them will doubtless be heard of as they reach 
the flowering stage. Some are necessarily repetitions of existing hybrids, 
