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met with, and therefore the more interesting on that account. The plants 
were clean and healthy, and in that thriving condition which shows that 
their requirements are well understood and provided for by Mr. Arkle’s 
gardener. 
Quite close by is the large and well-arranged nursery of Mr. C. Young, 
where, among numerous subjects which are grown with the skill of an 
expert, we found a few good Orchids grown in quantity for cut flowers and 
other purposes. 
There is a fine Cattleya house containing, amongst others, a lot of C. 
Mossiz, which were beginning to flower nicely, also a remarkable form of 
C. Mendelii (described on page 242), which is as handsome as it is 
remarkable in shape. Here, also, was a large healthy batch of Lelia 
purpurata, of which some fifty or sixty were in flower, and showing the 
usual amount of variation, one very fine light form having the lip very 
prettily suffused with light purple. One splendid specimen was three feet 
across and carried seven fine spikes, and another bore a very stout spike 
with seven very large flowers. 
In another house was an extensive batch of Cypripedium insigne, while 
Ceelogyne cristata occupied one side of a large house. Odontoglossum 
crispum was represented by a batch of twelve-hundred, while Dendrobium 
nobile and Lzlia anceps are also grown in quantity, and in the greatest 
vigour. Plants grown under such conditions generally do well, as their par- 
ticular requirements can be attended to throughout the year, besides which, 
Mr. Young has a great liking for these plants, and grows them just as well 
as others of which he is an acknowledged expert. Our visit will long be 
remembered with pleasure. 
ONCIDIUM MACRANTHUM AND O. HASTIFERUM. 
THE introduction of an Oncidium from Peru, which is closely allied to the 
well-known O. macranthum, if not indeed a form of it, has revived the 
question of the identity of O. hastiferum which was much discussed when 
the former species was introduced to cultivation just over thirty years ago. 
O. hastiferum was described by Reichenbach in 1854, from dried materials 
collected at Loxa by Warscewicz (Bonplandia, 1854, p. 102), the chief 
differences from O. macranthnm being the subsessile petals and some 
characters of the lip and crest. Whether Linden intended the same 
plant by his O. macranthum var. hastiferum (Gard. Chron., 1867,"p. 17) 4s 
not clear, and Messrs. Backhouse, shortly afterwards, asked on what 
authority it was so named? Also whether it was not the typical macran- 
