THE ORCHID REVIEW. 279 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
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SIx beautiful forms of Od g purp re sent from the 
collection of Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno, and are note- 
worthy examples of good culture. One of them is taken. from a spike 
4 feet 53 inches long, which bears six branches and an aggregate of 38 
flowers, and another from a plant bearing four spikes on two bulbs, with 
an aggregate of 112 flowers, or an average of 28 on each spike—a result 
on which Mr. Broome’s clever gardener, Mr. Axtell, deserves to be 
congratulated. The others are fine examples of the species, differing 
somewhat in the details of the flower, with its colour and markings. . Two 
-good forms of O. X cristatellum are also sent, one much darker than 'the 
other. Mr. Broome remarks that these plants have been grown in a very 
cool house. 
Cattleyas and Lelias are also splendidly grown in this collection, as is 
shown by a magnificent flower of C. superba splendens, and a very finely- 
developed Lzelio-cattleya x Andreana. There are also flowers of C. 
Leopoldi and Lelio-cattleya x elegans, one of the latter being very richly 
coloured, and the other exceptionally large, as the petals are slightly over 
four inches long, with the other parts proportionately well developed. 
The other plants sent are a spray of the pretty Oncidium luridum 
guttatum, and a flower of the rare Odontoglossum purum. 
A very fine form of Cattleya Leopoldi is sent by the Brighton and 
South Coast Horticultural Company, Exotic Nursery, Worthing. This 
species is a very useful summer-blooming kind, as when well grown. it 
produces large trusses of its handsomely spotted flowers, which are 
exceedingly effective. 
A pretty form of Lelio-cattleya x elegans is sent from the collection 
of John W. Arkle, Esq., Holly Mount, West Derby, Liverpool. It is 
from a small imported plant, purchased three years ago, and now flowering 
for the first time. 
A flower of a finely shaped, well-blotched form of Odontoglossum x 
Denisone is sent from the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
Burford, Dorking, by Mr. White. The ground colour is white, and thus it 
looks at first very different from the forms with a yellow ground. It was 
purchased in flower in 1883, at a sale by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, asa 
distinct species. F 
Thunia alba has of late years been superseded in cultivation by the 
more handsome T. Marshalliana, but a good example of the former, having 
the lip prettily pencilled with lilac, has been sent from the collection of 
Wm. Bazeley, Esq., Twyford, Berks. 
