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Messrs. Loddiges. Lastly, at page 71, Lindley notices an interesting case 
of the appearance of Monachanthus-like flowers on a plant of Catasetum 
deltoideum in the collection of Mr. Dunsford, though the cause of this 
supposed sporting was then a profound mystery. 
This volume also contains an interesting account of the production of 
Vanilla in England (p. 66). Lindley remarked that most horticulturists 
would be aware that Prof. Charles Morren had procured the aromatic fruit 
of Vanilla in abundance, by artificial fertilisation, at Liége, but he was not 
aware that anyone in England had met with like success until Mr. 
Henderson, the skilful gardener at Lord Fitzwilliam’s seat, at Milton, 
accomplished the object. In April last Mr. Henderson sent him flowers, 
accompanied by the ripe fruit, which appeared to be quite as fragrant as 
those imported from Mexico, and they proved as fit for the purpose of 
flavouring ices and creams. Mr. Henderson stated his plant had produced 
flowers for several years, but no fruit, until he saw Morren’s paper giving 
directions for artificial fertilisation, and by following these instructions 
he succeeded in getting a number of fruit to set. Morren’s paper, “ On the 
production of Vanilla in Europe,” was read before the British Association 
at Newcastle, and was published in the Annals of Natural History for 
March 1839. 
The corresponding volume of the Botanical Magazine (completed June, 
1841) contained figures of twenty Orchids, though most of them were 
already known, but under t. 3804 (Lelia anceps) is a very interesting 
account of the method of treatment then practised by Donald Beaton, 
gardener to T. Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury, the owner of ‘extensive 
collections of Orchidacez and Cactez.” Having received, about the end 
of September, a large importation of Mexican Orchids from Mr. Galeotti 
who had gathered them at an elevation of 7500 to gooo feet, he laid them 
on shelves in the seed room, with a thin layer of damp moss under them, 
and by the middle of December they had imbibed sufficient moisture to 
swell them to their natural size, after which some were removed to the cool 
end of the Orchid house, while others were left in the seed room, and 
these did better than those placed in heat, particularly Cattleya citrina. 
When they began to grow in March and April, they were removed ‘“ into 
a brick heat’”—whatever that may mean—and now they were said to 
“ have the advance of those which were in heat during the winter,” and 
it was intended, as soon as the leaves were fully formed, to “‘ remove them 
to ripen their growth to the warmest end of the greenhouse.” Ina 
subsequent letter Mr. Beaton alluded to a fine collection just received 
from Mr. Skinner, of Guatemala, adding, “ I have ample proof that these, 
and many others, will not do so well if they are subjected to a heat above 
50° or 55° in winter. Nothing can be more difficult than to bring some 
