DECEMBER, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 355 
A GROUP OF DENDROBIUM PHALZENOPSIS. 
(See Frontispiece). 
The frontispiece to the present volume consists of a finely-grown group 
of the beautiful Dendrobium Phalznopsis from the collection of O. O. 
Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. Mr. Rogers remarks that ‘‘ the plants 
have been in the collection since 1899, and have done better this year than 
ever previously.”’ _ Possibly the unusually bright summer may have had 
something to dowiththis. It will be noticed that the plants are in com- 
paratively small pots, and in some cases are rooting freely over the sides. 
When thus grown the species forms a picture of loveliness. The group 
much recalls the one exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on November 
7th last, from the collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bourton-on- 
the- Water, to which a Silver Lindley Medal was awarded. The history of 
the species was given at pp. 146, 147 of our sixteenth volume, and that of 
its allies two years later (xviil., p. 206—z208). 
ORCHIDS AT ST. ALBANS. 
IT is now some time since an article appeared on the establishment of 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, and a few notes taken on the occasion of a recent 
visit to St. Albans may be of interest to the readers of the Orchid Review. 
Entering the first house in the company of Mr. Gott, we found it entirely 
devoted to the raising of Cattleyas and Leliocattleyas, the plants ranging 
in size from the tiniest green globules to sturdy seedlings in thimble pots. 
There is an endless variety of crosses, and the house contains over 100,000 
plants. The next house visited was almost entirely devoted to seedling 
Cypripediums, about 10,000 being accommodated here. At one end a large 
and healthy batch of Angrzecum sesquipedale was pointed out, also the 
distinct Cypripedium concolor Sandere. In the long corridor were numerous 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum, chrysanthum, and crassinode, showing well 
for bloom, and others. 
A large house was well filled with seedling Dendrobiums, whilst in 
another was noticed a nice batch of Chysis bractescens, the small-flowered 
Lanium Berkeleyi, and Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii. Then follow six 
houses filled with Lzeliocattleyas of flowering size. Amongst those in 
bloom may be mentioned L.-c. Haroldiana, Pallas, La Belle, Black Prince, 
of wonderful colouring, and Hon. Mrs. Astor. In one house there was a 
gorgeous display of Cattleya Fabia, all most highly coloured, with some 
good forms of C. Peetersii. 
Two Cypripedium houses were filled with the choicest hybrids, of which 
only a few can be noted—C. Actzeus nivalis, Acteus Undine, an albino 
form, Thalia var. Mrs. F. Wellesley, Alabaster, Leander superbum, Minos 
