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some of the heat-loving species, many of which grow with remarkable 
vigour, as has frequently been remarked by English Orchidists. 
The collection is still housed in the five structures mentioned, together 
-with a few Aroids and other stove plants. The houses are span-roofed, 
some nine to eleven yards long, with tanks beneath the stages, and they are 
shaded by rush blinds, which are supported on iron carriers, about a foot 
above the glass. These give more shade than lath blinds, as is necessary in 
such a bright climate. 
In the first house we noticed a number of good examples of Vanda 
tricolor and suavis, V. Parishii Marriottiana producing a fine spike, a lot of 
Dendrobiums in open-sided pans, and among them D. Dalhousieanum 
Rossianum, Rchb. f., with a seven-flowered spike, a fine plant of Sobralia 
‘macrantha with ten blooms, forming quite a picture, good plants of 
‘Oncidium aurosum and sphacelatum, one of the latter being in bloom, a 
number of Selenipediums, several being in flower, Coelogyne Massangeana, 
Rossiana, and Sanderiana, Cymbidiums, and other interesting things. A 
ilot of Stanhopeas are grown here during the winter, to be mentioned 
‘presently. 
The next house is largely devoted to Dendrobiums, Cypripediums, and 
species requiring similar treatment, and here we noted Brassavola Perrinil 
and Martiana in bloom, with Chysis bractescens and Dendrobium nobile, 
Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana in spike, Odontoglossum citrosmum with a 
‘spike of 13 buds, and a number of Cypripediums, these including C. Cros- 
-sianum, Chamberlainianum, Germinyanum, Harrisianum, Ashburtonie 
Bartetii, superciliare, Cybele (Druryi X Lawrenceanum), and many others, 
‘several of them being from batches of seedlings raised in the collection. We 
noted plants of Miltonia festiva and Clowesii, a fine clump of Barkeria 
melanocaulon, Bulbophyllum Lobbii, various Cattleyas, Coelogyne cristata 
alba, &c. 
The next might be described as an Intermediate house, for here we 
-saw Masdevallia Winniana in bloom, a good plant of Scaphosepalum 
-swertizefolium with several spikes, Oncidium incuryvum throwing. up two 
spikes, a fine clump of Brassia caudata, a plant of Restrepia striata, 
Epidendrum atropurpureum throwing up a spike, and plants of Odonto- 
-glossum grande. Lycaste cruenta and the hybrid L. Janete were in bloom, 
also plants of Cypripedium barbatum, Dendrobium Loddigesii, and Gongora 
-quinquenervis vitellina, with Cirrhza saccata and a Chysis in spike. 
-Ccelogyne cristata grows here with remarkable vigour, and we noticed many 
fine specimens of the different varieties, while some have had to be thrown 
away for want of space. There were also Trichopilias, a fine pan of 
Ccelogyne graminifolia, Epidendrum Parkinsonianum, Lelia harpophylla, 
-Lycastes, Cypripediums, &c. 
