346 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
to keep up a continual and excessive heat, nor an atmosphere like a 
Turkish Bath. His plants were all grown in baskets, and suspended, and 
apart from that, used to receive exactly similar treatment to that given to 
the majority of stove plants; simply being watered when necessary, 
according to the weather and the season, and kept comparatively dry during 
the worst of the winter. The temperature, I remember, used to fluctuate 
as in an ordinary stove. If it happened to descend to an unusually low 
degree occasionally, say 45° or 50°, no particular notice was taken, and no 
harm ever accrued, for the atmosphere would be dry at the same time, and 
what did it matter? It is too much artificial heat and moisture, and forcing 
generally, during the winter, that ruins the constitution of many a plant, 
and Phalzenopsis are not the least to suffer. 
SALE OF ORCHIDS AT THE FIRS, WARWICK. 
THE sale of the late Major Mason’s Orchids took place on the premises 
on October roth, 11th and 12th, and realised the sum of £3,110 135. 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris, of Cheapside, were the auctioneers, and it 
may be interesting to give the prices for which a few well-known things were 
sold. Cypripedium insigne giganteum realised the highest individual amount, 
namely £147, and a few others fetched very good prices. A plant of C. 
Lawrenceanum Hyeanum with two growths fetched £89 5s., and a second 
one was sold for £76 13s. C. callosum Sanderz realised £73 Ios., C. insigne 
Sandere £54 12s., and a smaller plant of the same £35 14s. A plant sold 
as a yellow variety of C. insigne Maulei fetched £32 11s., and C. insigne 
Dorothy with eight growths £29 8s. C. x Aylingii with three growths 
fetched 17 guineas. The most valuable Cattleya was C. labiata alba, the 
sum of £63 being paid for a plant with four pseudobulbs. C. Mossie 
Wageneri fetched £27 6s.; C. x Lord Rothschild £26 5s.; C. intermedia 
alba £22 1s.; C. Mendelii Miss Little 19 guineas; C. x Fernand Denis 
with seven pseudobulbs, C. Mossize bellissima, C. x Parthenia speciosa, and 
C. Skinneri alba, each I7 guineas, and C. x Louis Chaton and C. X 
Mantinii nobilior each 11 guineas. Among Dendrobiums the best price 
was obtained for D. Phalznopsis album, namely £52 ros.; for a plant with 
five old and one new pseudobulbs, while a fine specimen plant of D. nobile 
Ballianum fetched 15 guineas, D. x Gemma (described at page 73 of our 
third volume) with three pseudobulbs, 13 guineas, and D. Wardianumalbum 
with nine pseudobulbs and three leads, 11 guineas. Lelio-cattleya X 
Berthe Fournier realised £31 tos.; L.-c. X eximia f21; L.-c. x Iolanthe 
. aa 2 oe x Pallas 16 guiueas. Laelia purpurata Littleana 
White” 3s iia Peve Backhouseana 16 guineas ; and L. anceps “Bull “ 
. me unflowered seedlings also fetched good prices. 
