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are equally vigorous. The magnificent group shown at Manchester last 
year shows the success of this treatment, and it may be mentioned that one 
pseudobulb carried three long racemes of twenty-six and twenty-eight 
flowers. We also noticed some plants of the recently introduced D. 
spectabile growing vigorously, and D. atroviolaceum in flower. A few 
Cypripedes are also cultivated here very successfully, among them one called : 
Madame Jules Hye (tonsum x Spicerianum) looking very healthy. 
A house is almost devoted to Cattleya labiata, intermediate treatment 
being given, and Mr. Johnson remarked that during January and February 
not a drop of water was given to the plants. In bud here, we noticed a 
curious little plant, apparently an Odontoglossum, which was picked out of 
an imported clump of C. labiata. This we should like to know more ; 
about. On a shelf we noticed four plants of the remarkable violet-blue 
Dendrobium Victoria-Regina in flower. 
Cattleyas and Cypripedes are represented by many choice forms, but 
none of the former were yet out. Mr. Statter, however, pointed out the 
down below the basket in masses ; also C. x H. Statteriana and Countess of 
Derby, together with several plants picked out of an importation of C. 
Dowiana aurea, which are thought to belong to C. x Hardyana, and 
will be watched with interest til] they flower. There is also a nice batch of 
seedlings’ raised from C. Warscewiczii ? and C. Dowiana aurea 3 
respecting which no uncertainty need be felt; and some good seedlings 
from C. granulosa Schofieldiana ? and C. labiata 3, which ought to 
prove C. X Imperator. Other interesting seedlings noted were Cattleya 
Bowringiana x Hardyana Massaiana, C. Bowringiana X L. tenebrosa, and 
L. tenebrosa crossed with C. x Hardyana, C. Dowiana aurea, and C. 
Mossiz, all of them promising well. Lelio-cattleya x highburiensis was 
in flower. A supposed pure white form of Lelia purpurata is being 
watched with interest, four plants having been obtained from Messrs. 
Cowan, which are growing well. Plenty of moisture in the air and 
comparatively little at the root, are points on which Mr. Johnson lays great 
stress, and the plants are remarkably healthy. 
We have little room left for the Cypripedes, which are an equally fine lot, 
but first we may mention the supposed hybrid between Sedeni and Stonei, 
which has now flowered, though imperfectly, and showing very little, if any, 
of the influence of the latter parent. The flowers may come better next 
time, and we should like to see them. Several interesting things were in 
flower and bud, among them the beautiful albinos, callosum Sanderzx and 
Lawrenceanum Hyeanum. A seedling said to have been derived from a 
bellatulum crossed with F airrieanum pollen is, of course, a plant of great 
promise, and it would be easy to enumerate many others, did space permit. 
