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thrysiflorum, Pierardii, Vanda tricolor, V. suavis, Oncidium Papilio, some 
pretty clumps of O. concolor, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Odontioda Brad- 
shawiz, and several plants of the pretty O. chelseiensis, which were 
flowering very freely. Various other things might be enumerated, but we 
now passed into the general houses, where a number of other interesting 
things were in bloom or in spike. 
On entering an Odontoglossum house we first noticed a little batch of 
Odontioda chelseiensis, several being in bloom and others in spike. It is 
free-growing and floriferous, and very distinct in colour. A number of other 
seedling Odontiodas were pointed out, some of which are nearly large 
enough to bloom. This house was almost entirely devoted to seedling 
Odontoglossums, in the raising of which the firm has been very successful. 
Several plants were in bloom ofa batch raised from O. crispum General 
Roberts crossed with the pollen of the very distinct O. c. Black Prince, and 
in each case the very dark colour of the latter predominated. They were 
small plants flowering for the first time, some with only a single bloom, but 
are extremely promising. A few seedlings out of the batch are said to have 
been unblotched. A batch of O. Edwardii X armainvillierense was 
beginning to throw up spikes, in one case on the first made bulb. In another 
the spike had been stopped and had produced three side branches. All 
were very vigorous, and in one case the flowering bulb was about four inches 
long and very stout. Several forms of O. Brandtiz (Pescatorei X 
luteopurpureum), were in bloom, and differed considerably in shape and in the 
amount of spotting. 
Another house was largely devoted to seedling Odontoglossums, and 
here we saw a very pretty hybrid between O. Andersonianum and O. 
spectabile, in which the spotting on the segments was very copious, and 
warm brown in colour, while the Harryanum crest was very marked. A 
few well-blotched forms of O. eximium were in bloom, and a seedling 
Odontioda Bradshawie in bud. A few Cochlioda Netzliana were also 
flowering here. 
In another house a large number of smaller seedlings are grown, indeed 
they were here in every stage, for Mr. Lakin, who has had charge of the 
department for a good many years, pointed out seeds that were only just 
turning green before losing their characteristic shape, and from this they 
could be traced through every stage of germination and onward up to plants 
of flowering size. They germinate with the utmost freedom, the temperature 
being kept a little warmer than that in which established plants are usually 
grown. Many very promising crosses were pointed out, including a plant 
of O. Rossii X crispum of nearly flowering size. It is one of a small 
number of O. Rossii hybrids which have been raised. A few nice little 
plants. of Oncidium tigrinum X maculata were also pointed out. 
