106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, I9TI- 
ORCHIDS AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 
BEING in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells in December last, I paid a 
visit to the nursery of Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, and never has it been 
my good fortune to see such a magnificent display of choice Orchids in 
bloom. 
The nursery is situated on the summit of a hill about five minutes’ walk 
from Southborough station, and consists of eleven Jong span-roofed houses, 
connected by a corridor, and facing them an Odontoglossum house, and the 
various offices. 
On entering the first house, in company with Mr. Armstrong, one could 
not help being struck by the enormous number of Cattleya, Lzliocattleya, 
and Brassavola hybrids, all of flowering size, and in the most perfect 
condition. Several plants were out in blossom, including a grand form of 
Cattleya Mrs. Pitt, dark and light forms of the beautiful C. Armstrongize 
(Harrisoniana X Hardyana), and a pale form of C. Miss Williams. Several 
plants of the magnificent Brassolelia Digbyano-purpurata were also pointed 
out, including a pure white variety with pale lemon throat. The house is 
large, and must contain several thousand plants. It has two side stages, 
and a Jarge central one, at the top of which were several specimen Leelio- 
cattleya George Woodhams, a magnificent hybrid between Cattleya 
Hardyana and Lelia- purpurata, and two very fine specimen plants of 
Angrecum Eichlerianum. On the left side were several healthy-looking 
seed pods, which told of hybridizing operations. 
The next house is a lower span-roofed structure, devoted to Cypripediums, 
of which only the choicest varieties are grown. All the plants in this house 
are kept here until they flower, and then the best are retained, and the inferior 
varieties destroyed. Many magnificent hybrids were in bloom, and the 
house was simply one mass of colour. Among the choicest I noted C. 
Euryades splendens, several fine forms of Actzeus, Baron Schréder, eboraicum 
Hitchinsie New Hall Hey variety, Captain Spender Clay (villosum 
auriferum X Fairrieanum), Mrs. Spender Clay (Actzeus X Fairrieanum), 
and numerous other fine hybrids. At the end were about two dozen 
thriving plants of Bulbophyllum Godseffianum, one of the prettiest of the 
so-called botanical Orchids, its peculiar rocking lip being very interesting. 
In the next house was a good group of the long-lost Cypripedium 
Fairrieanum, which made a fine display, and I noted several fine C. 
Hitchinsiz, memoria Moensii, and other good crosses. On the other side 
five glorious Cypripediums stood out prominently; C. Thalia var. Mrs. 
Francis Wellesley, Thalia giganteum with three flowers, a fine Germaine 
Opoix Westfield variety, nitens G. S. Ball’s variety, and a hybrid bearing 
the largest flower I have ever seen, from which magnificent secondary 
