THE ORCHID REVIEW. 143 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
OwInG to the large number of showy hybrids now in_ existence, 
Dendrobiums are becoming increasingly useful as spring flowering plants, 
and for several weeks they have made a brilliant display. D. x Wiganize 
is a very beautiful addition to the list, combining as it does the characters 
of D. nobile and the yellow D. signatum. Some excellent flowers of it are 
sent from the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, by Mr. White. The 
variety xanthochilum, to which an Award of Merit was given by the R.H.S. 
on March r4th, is very distinct on account of the amount of yellow on the 
lip. D. nobile keeps up the display better than most species, because large 
numbers are grown and the plants are brought into heat in succession. 
Many beautiful forms have appeared among the recent importations, from 
pure white up to deep rose-purple. The extreme forms are, of course, 
rare, but those nearer the type also vary considerably among themselves, 
and examples are sent from several collections in illustration of this point. 
A series of about a dozen flowers from the collection of W. Thomson, 
Esq., form a charming little group, and include another example of the 
pure white D. n. virginale, which, like those mentioned at page 98, has 
flowered out of a recent importation. The pretty little D. x Wiganie 
was also enclosed. A flower of D. nobile from the collection of R. I. 
Measures, Esq., of Camberwell, is remarkable for the long, rather loose 
sepals and petals, and the unusually tubular lip. The bulbs also are 
rather long. It came out of one of Mr. J. W. Moore’s importations. 
Odontoglossums are now in season, and rank as favourites with most 
Orchid growers. O. crispum may be mentioned first, for this species and its 
hybrids undoubtedly form the chief centre of interest. The richly-blotched 
and suffused crispums are becoming increasingly numerous, and will prob- 
ably continue to do so, for all are taken care of, and they vary enormously 
among themselves. It is remarkable what a number of hybrids, particu- 
larly forms of O. x Andersonianum, keep flowering out of importations 
of O. crispum, and some of them are very beautiful. Four different forms 
are sent from the collection of B. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddaroch, 
one having numerous dark chestnut spots on a cream ground being near 
the original type. Another, called Arddarroch var., which has been 
previously noted, is more heavily spotted and the ground somewhat suffused 
with purple. Two others come nearest the variety Ruckerianum. A clear, 
light yellow, unspotted form from the collection of James Davidson, Esq., 
Dumfries, is very striking. There is a faint suffusion of rose in the sepals, 
and a few brown streaks on the stalk of the lip. A second form which has 
flowered is more suffused and somewhat spotted. Mr. White also sends a 
good, well-marked form of O. x Coradinei, O. crispum prettily suffused 
