138 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, ror. 
P. NIVEUM (fig. 16) is a well-known white-flowered species, sometimes 
with a few minute purple dots on the petals and dorsal sepal. It is a 
native of the Langkawi Islands, where it is found on limestone rocks in 
somewhat shaded positions. It has been known for upwards of forty years. 
P. CHAMBERLAINIANUM (fig. 17) is a Sumatran species, and a member of 
a small group which produces flowers in succession for many months, the 
scapes continuing to elongate for a long period. It was introduced in 1892, 
_ and was figured at page 361 of our fifth volume. 
ORCHIDS AT THE WEST HILL, HESSLE, E. YORKS. 
HESSLE Is situated five miles or so west of the city of Hull, and is one of 
the favourite residential suburbs of that city. The West Hill is about three- 
quarters of a mile west of the picturesque village of Hessle, and, as its 
name implies, stands on a hill overlooking the Humber. The collection of 
Orchids here brought together by W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., is probably, in 
some classes, one of the most select in existence. 
- The collection is housed in three ranges of houses and one independent 
one, which are divided into nine compartments. Several of them have been 
adapted to Orchid culture from ordinary plant houses, and are of span 
shape. They run north and south, with a single exception, and this runs 
east to west. The latter is the first we enter, and is. filled with Leelia 
anceps of the best varieties, both white and coloured. They include Bull's 
alba, Sanderiana, Schroederiana, Schroederee, Amesiana, Amesiana Hessle 
variety, a particularly fine form which flowered for the first time last winter, 
Williamsi!l, Hollidayana, Chamberlainiana, Stella, and perhaps the finest 
form in cultivation, namely L. a. Stella Hessle variety, which is a white 
anceps as large as L. a. Chamberlainiana. Upon the roof are suspended a 
number of plants of Lelia Gouldiana and L. autumnalis alba. | Perhaps 
in no collection in existence are so many plants grown in a given amount of 
room, and one of the features of the collection is the number of plants 
grown suspended from the roof. When at their best they form a picture of 
loveliness. At one end of this house are a number of the briiliantly-coloured 
Renanthera Imschootiana, which promise nicely for a fine crop of flowers 
later on. Associated with them are several nice plants of Vanda ccerulea, 
* which look quite at home, and which have been grown from quite small 
pieces. 
_ The next house we enter is a warm Cattleya house, and is divided into 
two compartinents, and to describe all the inmates would fill a veritable 
catalogue. The roof is carrying thirteen rows of plants of all sizes, all of 
which are pictures of health. This house has no centre stages, only side stages, 
which are filled with plants that are too large to suspend, although pans up 
to ten inches in diameter are suspended. The contents of this house include 
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