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The collection is ably managed by Mr. Poyntz, Mr. Young’s gardener, 
and is rapidly increasing in interest as the seedlings progress towards the 
flowering stage. We hope to have many future notes to record. 
Another interesting collection is that of F. H. Moore, Esq., of the Royal 
Infirmary, Liverpool, which illustrates well what an amount of enjoyment 
can be obtained out of two small houses if well looked after. These houses 
may be classified as a Cool and a Dendrobium house, and with the exception 
of such routine details as ventilation and watering, Mr. Moore chiefly attends 
to the plants himself. 
The Cool house contains quite a varied collection, and among those in 
flower were Odontoglossum cordatum, Ceryantesii, citrosmum, in bud, 
Rossii, and maculatum, Oncidium concolor, Cattleya citrina, Cymbidium 
Lowianum, Masdevallia Harryana and X Chelsoni, and Lycaste cruenta. 
The rare little Odontoglossum Galeottianum was also showing for flower. 
Among plants which succeed well here we noticed Dendrobium infundibulum, 
a good old plant of D. crassinode, and D. Wardianum—the latter said to 
have been grown cool for five years, and succeeds well—Lelia prestans, 
and Oncidium spilopterum. Mr. Moore indulges in hybridising, and we 
noticed good capsules of Odontoglossum bictoniense X grande, O. Cer- 
vantesii X crispum, Oncidium tigrinum X ornithorhynchum, and, what 
certainly deserves to be classed among “curious crosses,” Maxillaria 
tenuifolia x Odontoglossum cordatum, nearly ripe. Cattleya citrina has 
also been crossed with Sophrocattleya grandiflora, and has evidently taken. 
With the hope of obtaining seedlings of Odontoglossum x Humeanum we 
then and there crossed and re-crossed O. Rossii and maculatum, but the 
results of all these crosses must be left for the present. We noticed here a 
small plant of the pretty little Sophrocattleya x Chamberlainii, obtained 
from Messrs. Cowan. 
Passing into the Dendrobium house we observed in flower, a very good 
form of D. crepidatum, D. crassinode, some good forms of D. nobile, D. 
densiflorum, D. Boxallii, Odontoglossum citrosmum, Chysis bractescens, 
Paphiopedilum barbatum, and a good plant of Phragmipedilum Xx Sedeni 
candidulum, with three spikes. The Dendrobiums were mostly over, but . 
the seed-pods showed that Mr. Moore had been busy, for we observed D. 
nobile crossed with Devonianum, densiflorum, and infundibulum, also with 
the abormal D. n. Cooksonianum, D. Findlayanum X ochreatum, D. 
luteolum x infundibulum, D. ochreatum X Wardianum, and D. X 
Ainsworthii intertextum x ochreatum. Of older capsules we noted D. 
aureum X primulinum from which good seed was escaping, also D. 
Findlayanum X nobile beginning to split ; also some nice seedlings of a 
similar cross. Mr. Moore finds his crosses most successful in this genus 
