146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOTICE OF BOOK. 
The Amateur Orchid Cultivator’s Guide Book. By H. A. Burberry, F.R.H.S. 
Third edition. 8vo, pp. 182, with four coloured plates and numerous 
illustrations. Blake & Mackenzie, Liverpool, 1900. 
A third edition of this useful little work has just appeared, and we may 
congratulate the author upon the success which has attended his efforts to 
popularize this charming family of plants. The purpose for which the work 
was originally intended is described in the preface as ‘‘ that of a text book 
conveying to the beginner information calculated best to assist him to take 
up, with reasonable chances of success, the beautiful study of Orchids and 
their culture,” and the fact that asecond edition is exhausted shows that it 
has not failed in its mission. The work forms a very useful stepping-stone 
to the larger manuals already in use, and we think that Mr. Burberry has 
been well advised in not departing from his original programme. The only 
additions which we notice are short chapters entitled, ‘‘ Results of further 
experience, or the Amateur’s Orchid House,” and on the “ Culture of 
Odontoglossum crispum,” which, it is hoped, may be of service. We need 
only add that, not only beginners, but those who have already made some 
progress in Orchid culture will find much that is worthy of careful perusal 
in this useful work. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x ADRIANA VAR. BIJOU. 
A VERY curious little Odontoglossum has flowered in the collection of 
J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate. Mr. Bradshaw writes :—I 
enclose the most diminutive crispum I have ever seen. The plant has 
small bulbs and seems a pigmy, but is very healthy. It is flowering for the 
second time, and last time was the same. It came from an importation out 
of which I also had O. Hunnewellianum and some O. x Adriane.” It 
is certainly a very peculiar form, and, though most like O. crispum, has the 
appearance-of being a hybrid. The flowers measure scarcely two inches 
across the petals, which are white and unspotted, and the sepals have each : 
one to four partially confluent brown spots about the centre, with a large 
blotch on the lip, in front of the crest. In colour it entirely resembles O. 
crispum, but the size and shape of the flower, some details of the crest, and 
the short column, with its nearly entire wings, show such a marked resem- 
blance to O. Hunnewellianum as to suggest that it is a hybrid between the 
two species. The markings of O. Hunneweilianum are largely obliterated, 
just as are those of O. gloriosum in certain forms of O. x Andersonianum : ; 
and hybrids are notoriously variable. 
KR. Aw. 
