54 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
In the Cool house there is a grand healthy lot of Masdevallias of the 
Harryana, Veitchiana, and ignea group. They are staged against a wall, 
which forms the back part of the house, and which is overlapped slightly by 
the branches of trees, thus the position is at once sheltered, cool, moist and 
shady, which I expect accounts for their freshness of colour—the usual 
black marks on the under surface of the leaves being absent—and their 
general healthiness. A very fine large bulbed plant of Oncidium macran- 
thum was noted, also good plants of Odontoglossum crispum, Harryanum, 
Pescatorei, triumphans, Cypripedium insigne, Cattleya citrina, Lycaste 
Skinneri alba, Dendrobium infundibulum, and Epidendrum vitellinum, the 
whole forming a pretty and useful collection, in excellent health, reflects 
great credit on the able management of Mr. A. Darby, Mr. Elliott’s 
gardener. yo oe 
ORCHIDS FROM BURY. 
WE have received from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge 
Hall, Bury, a series of beautiful cut Paphiopedilums in further illustration 
of their great value as winter blooming Orchids. The earlier communica- 
tion referred to is the beautiful photograph reproduced at page 17. 
First among the present examples may be mentioned half-a-dozen 
varieties of P. insigne, one of which, called subfuscum, is markedly distinct. 
The form is very good, and the spots on the dorsal sepal are more or less 
confluent into irregular lines, and of that light brown shade so often seen os 
the petals of this species. The others belong to the Chantini type, with 
large dark spots, of which so many have been named, though they are very 
ill-defined in books, and one of these has also numerous small distinct spots 
on the petals. 
The remainder are hybrids, several of them well known and of sterling 
merit. Three are insigne hybrids, namely, P. xX Leeanum, a pale nearly 
unspotted form, P. x Sallieri Hyeanum (the second parent P. villosum), and 
P. X Swinburnei (insigne x Argus); and the second, at all events, is an 
improvement, for the petals are beautifully spotted as well as the dorsal 
sepal, while both shape and colour are excellent. P. x Mrs. Maynard (P. 
X nitens X Boxallii) has also retained much of the 
spotting of the dorsal 
characters of P. Box 
insigne character in the 
sepal. P. X Calypso is very effective, combining the 
allii and P. Spicerianum. There are also two fine 
P. X politum is probably 
P. barbatum and P. venustum. A seedling 
