THE ORCHID REVIEW. 333 
ORCHIDS AT BRADFORD. 
A very interesting establishment which we had the pleasure of visiting at the 
end of May last, is the Nursery of Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., at Heaton, 
Bradford, which has long occupied a very important position in the north of 
England. An account of the establishment was given in our second volume 
(pp: 212-213), and since that time there is plenty of evidence that great 
progress has been made. 
In the first house which we entered there was a good display of flowers, 
and still more in bud, for in such a locality the lateness of the season could 
not fail to have a marked effect. We noted, however, among other things, 
a nice lot of Masdevallia Veitchiana making a brilliant display, half-a-dozen 
plants of the rare M. racemosa nicely in flower, M. ephippium, good 
examples of the rare M. Schlimii, M. macrura, M. coccinea, M. X 
Courtauldiana and M. X Curlei, Cattleyas Skinneri and Schilleriana, : the 
brilliant Cochlioda Ncetzliana, Odontoglossum cordatum, some good broad 
forms of O. crispum, one of which had a purple blotch at the base of the 
sepals and petals, Epidendrum porphyreum, &c. Here was also an interest- 
Ing hybrid derived from E. Frederici-Gulielmi ¢ and E. radicans ¢, though 
it had not yet reached its full development. There were also good plants of 
a hybrid derived from E. Cooperianum and E. X O’Brienianum ¢, and 
many other interesting plants which must be passed over. 
In one of the Cattleya houses was a fine lot of C. Mo 
flower, one plant bearing five spikes and an aggregate of seventeen large and 
richly coloured flowers being quite a picture. The varieties Wageneri and 
Reineckiana were also good. There were also good batches of Lelia 
purpurata and Miltonia vexillaria, the handsome Broughtonia sanguinea, 
Lelia Cowanii in sheath, a hybrid derived from Lelia purpurata ¢ and 
Cattleya Gaskelliana g in bud for the first time, also good plants of Lelio- 
cattleya X eximia, from the reverse cross, L.-c. X Duvaliana (L. purpurata 
xX C. Lueddemanniana), and an interesting hybrid from L.-c. X elegans 
crossed with Cattleya x Brymeriana. 
In other houses we noted a nice batch 
P. X Norman, good forms of Cypripedium bell 
batch of C. x superciliare, the handsome 
Zygopetalum Gautieri, Lycaste cruenta and L. 
grandiflora, Epidendrum atropurpureum, a fine specimen of Cochlioda 
Sanguinea with twelve spikes, and other interesting things. Among these 
some of the hybrids should be mentioned. Lelia Xx cinnabrosa was 
represented by a few good plants in flower and bud, Epilalia x radico- 
purpurata was also out, together with light and dark forms of a hybrid 
between Epidendrum X O’Brienianum ? and E. vitellinum ¢ . 
ssiz in bud and 
of Phaius Wallichii, the handsome 
atulum and C. niveum, a nice 
Cattleya x Louis Chaton, 
Lawrenceana, Maxillaria 
