262 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
is inadmissible for the hybrid Epidendrum nocturnum x Cattleya 
Bowringiana, and for the two reasons just given. Either this or the hybrid 
E. fragrans X C. Skinneri ought to be called Epicattleya x Meadii, and I 
commend the suggestion to the powers that be, and here leave it. 
Last month I alluded to Cattleya Mossize and its multitudinous 
varieties. But still they come. I have just dropped across a note of another . 
new one—“ one of many varieties, more than forty of which have been 
deemed worthy of being separately named.’ This is all for the present. 
How they differ from existing varieties is not stated, but perhaps this can be 
more easily imagined than described. 
ARGUS. 
ORCHID CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 
In this climate, almost tropical during the grearer part of the year, many 
stove and intermediate Orchids thrive with comparatively little care, 
though glass is necessary for protection during some winter nights when 
frost may be expected. 
For a number of years Dendrobium nobile lived and bloomed entirely 
exposed, but was killed last winter by the frost that destroyed the orange 
groves. Still, it is interesting to note that one small plant of it, on a tree 
trunk in the woods, survived, though ice formed four inches thick, and the 
thermometer ranged from 17° to 24° F. for three nights in succession. 
Some years ago I had a clump of D. nobile, growing on a tree near the 
house, which was in bud when the thermometer marked 21° F. for a short 
time. Some leaves were scorched, but the buds opened and the plant 
bloomed as usual. 
Cool house Orchids usually die during the first summer. It has ocurred 
to me that anyone having a system of tile drains—so common in England 
—might make connection with them, drawing air cooled by passage through 
them into and through his Cool house, and thus keep the temperature 
down even on the hottest days. 
This climate is very favourable to seed production. With hybridised 
Cattleyas and Lelias I often get a 
perhaps half-a-million in a pod. 
I have been successful also in getting young plants from some of the 
West Indian Epidendrums crossed with Cattleya Skinneri and C. 
Bowringiana, and recently planted seeds of Bletia verecunda @ X Schom- 
burgkia tibicinis g are beginning to grow. This ought to make a curious 
and interesting hybrid. 
good seed from nearly every ovule— 
. T. L. MEAD. 
Oviedo, Florida. 
