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a very fragrant hybrid from C. amethystoglossa X Schroedere, and another 
from L. Jongheana x L.-c. elegans, with plants of the handsome Phaius 
Norman, a well-bloomed Lycaste aromatica, Ccelogne tomentosa, and 
several fine plants of the handsome Cypripedium Statherianum (Masters- 
ianum X Victoria Mariz. Wealso noted a large number of capsules. Some 
of the plants stood on a very useful stand of Mr. Armstrong’s own design. 
It is practically a flower pot with four or five large openings at the sides, 
which permit a free circulation of air, this being a great improvement on 
the ordinary flower pot on which the plants are often elevated. 
The next house is devoted to Cattleyas and Cypripediums, the former 
chiefly seedlings of large size. Among the Cypripediums we noted a lot of 
C. glaucophyllum, several of which were flowering freely. They are stood 
here and there on the side and end walls of the house, and thus are ina 
slightly cooler and more airy position than if on the stages, where Mr. 
Armstrong remarks the Cattleyas do not succeed. They occupy a similar 
position in other houses, and about four dozen were in bloom, and very 
beautiful they were. A batch of C. Rothschildianum crosses of various 
kinds were pointed out, all in robust health. A hybrid from C. Leeanum 
giganteum < Sanderianum was bearing a two-flowered scape, the flowers 
being most like the second parent, the dorsal sepal acuminate and _ striped 
with purple-brown, and the petals narrow and nearly four inches long. 
€. ciliolare has been crossed with both C. Chamberlainianum and C. 
Victoria-Mariz, and about a dozen of each were in bloom,-the hybrids being 
robust and very floriferous. C. Franconia is another fine thing, derived 
from C. calloso-Rothschildianum x C. callosum Sandere. Mr. Armstrong 
has repeated the cross between C. Sallieri Hyeanum and C. Spicerianum, 
the former in this case being the seed-parent, and, as in the case of the 
original C. aureum, the seedlings have proved remarkably variable in 
‘colour. Several of them were in bloom, including yellow and spotted 
forms, also some with purple suffusion on the dorsal sepal. A number of 
Cattleya seedlings were suspended over the centre path, and were in thriving 
condition. 
The next house was devoted mainly to Cypripediums, and contained 
some fine forms of C. Mrs. Wm. Mostyn, the parentage of which Mr. 
Armstrong has proved by re-crossing C. Boxallii with €. Calypso. They 
vary somewhat, but include forms identical with the original, which was 
also there for comparison. C. Leeanum Clinkaberryanum x insigne Hare- 
field Hall is a fine thing with a prettily blotched dorsal sepal, and C. Cham- 
berlainianum X Druryi is a strong grower with a racemose inflorescence. 
C. Mons. de Curte X nitens aureum was also very effective, and we noted 
fine examples of C. Rothschildianum, C. Deedmanianum,and others. The 
plants generally are in the most robust health. 
