THE ORCHID REVIEW. 239 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM crispum has for some time made a very beautiful display 
in our collections, though the majority are now over for the present season. 
Four very pretty varieties are sent from the collection of R. le Doux, Esq., 
West Derby, Liverpool, by Mr. Archer. The first has rosy sepals and white 
petals, with only a few minute brown spots on the lip; a second, with 
similar ground colour, has a few purple spots on the sepals, and a larger 
blotch in front of the lip’s crest; a third is beautifully suffused throughout 
with rose purple, with the addition of a spot or two on some of the segments; 
and a fourth is about intermediate between the first and last. All are 
typical in shape, and form a very pretty little group. 
A very pretty form is sent from the collection of D. M. Grimsdale, Esq., 
Kent Lodge, Uxbridge. The flower is good in shape, and the petals nicely 
fringed; the ground colour white, with a few brown spots on the sepals and 
lip. A large and handsome form of Oncidium crispum is also enclosed—the 
one known as O.c. grandiflorum,—together with a fine Cattleya Mendelii 
with pure white sepals and petals and the front of the lip brilliant amethyst, 
and an exceptionally large flower of C. Warscewiczii. 
J. W. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool, sends Cattleya Eldorado and 
C. E. rosea, both very effective at this season; also three good forms of C. 
Gaskelliana, one being a good dark form, and another having nearly white 
sepals and petals. Both these species are very variable in colour, and come 
in usefully when the other species are over. 
A very pretty form of Cattleya Mendelii is sent from the collection of 
R. B. Macbean, Esq., of Lancaster. The front lobe of the lip is marbled 
with white in the way of C. M. bella, to which it may be referred. 
A large and very richly coloured form of Cattleya Mossiz is sent 
from the collection of J. F. Laycock, Esq., Wiseton Hall, Bawtry (gr. 
Mr. Lamb). The combination of deep orange-yellow and rich crimson 
on the well-expanded lip is superb. Two other striking things are a 
light form of Laelia tenebrosa, with more white on the lip than is often 
seen, and a beautiful flower of Odontoglossum crispum, one of fifteen or 
sixteen on a spike. 
A good flower of Lzlio-cattleya X Aphrodite is sent from the collec- 
tion of R, Ashworth, Esq., of Newchurch, Manchester. It is a seedling 
flowering for the first time, without record of parentage, but the character 
of the flower leaves no doubt that it was raised from L. purpurata and 
C. Mendelij. 
Orchids are now falling off rapidly in point of numbers for a fe 
but those which flower now are mostly very fine. 
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