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hybrids should be obtained. The pretty C. insigne corrugatum and Sandere 
were represented by a score of healthy plants, bearing flowers of good size 
and substance. There were also fine plants of the varieties McNabianum 
and Laura Kimball. The grand Harefield Hall variety is also represented 
here by many plants of extraordinary vigour. There were at least 400 
Cypripedium blooms in this house alone, all of which are selected varieties, 
and words cannot do justice to their beauty. 
In the next house was a magnificent show of Odontiodas, O. Seymouri, 
Charlesworthii, and Bradshawiz, all carrying long spikes with blossoms of 
good size and substance. At the end of this house was a collection of 
hybrid Sophronitis and Lelia flava crosses, which do better if grown a little 
cooler than the other Lelia hybrids. 
Several Sophrocattleyas and Sophrocatlelias were in sheath. Some 
magnificent plants of the fine Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, and O. 
ardentissimum x Cochlioda Neetzliana were throwing up long flower 
spikes, which should give a wealth of bloom in a few weeks. I noted 
also a large specimen plant of O. Rolfez in spike. At the end nearest the 
door were many seedling Odontoglossums, ranging from flowering size to 
minute green globules in the seed pans. On the opposite side were many 
hundred plants of the chaste white Dendrobium nobile virginale, now at 
rest. Suspended from the roof were about fifty pans containing on an 
average eight to ten plants of this beautiful Orchid in a smaller stage of 
growth. 
In the next house there was a most complete collection of seedling 
Lzeliocattleyas approaching flowering size, and a large stock of the beautiful 
creamy-yellow Brassocattleya Leemannie. ; 
We next visited the seedling houses, devoted to the raising of Cattleyas 
and Cypripediums, and there must have been many thousand such seedlings, 
all growing and germinating with the greatest vigour. In the house devoted 
to the raising of Cyripedium seedlings, there were several good hybrids, 
including C. Thalia Mrs. Francis Wellesley with three flowers, and a 
roundish form of C. Baron Schréder. There were also many fine plants of 
the beautiful green Coelogyne pandurata. At the end of the Cattleya seedling 
house was a collection of interesting botanical Orchids, including a Cirrho- 
petalum carrying an umbel of its pretty flowers. 
In the corridor were many good varieties of Cypripediums, and a row of 
beautifully clean-grown Dendrobiums, while suspended from the roof were 
many Cattleyas of all kinds, both species and hybrids. ; 
In the larger Odontoglossum house, we noticed many flower spikes 
appearing. Many are specimen plants, and all will give a splendid display 
of bloom in their respectivé seasons. A collection of good hybrid 
Cymbidiums is grown here, and the handsome C. Lady Colman was 
