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OcTOBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 307° 
promising O. crispum Graireanum crossed with another blotched crispum,. 
and having broad white segments densely spotted with crimson-brown. 
These two houses contained thousands of seedlings in all stages and should: 
yield many choice things when they reach the flowering stage. 
A house of the old Pacho type of O. crispum formed the strongest 
contrast in point of vigour with the seedlings, and some of the plants have 
been here for twenty years, in fact Mr. Sander remarked that they are hard 
to grow, but they are prized for the good things that have come out of the 
importation. 
A house of established Odontoglossums contained many good things in 
bloom, including two O. McNabianum (Harryanum xX Wilckeanum), one 
of which had very dark flowers of enormous size, a good O. eximium with 
clusters of purple spots on a white ground, some well-blotched O- 
Pescatorei X Hallii, O. amabile with a spike of fifteen large flowers, fine 
forms of O. Wilckeanum, some good O. triumphans latisepalum X 
sceptrum, one having a spike of seventeen flowers, two very distinct forms 
of O. spectabile, one, from crispum as the seed-bearer, being very dark in 
colour, O. cirrhosum Xx Harryanum, with a large branched panicle, O. 
harvengtense delicatum, a fine form with a very light yellow blotch on the 
lip and nearly white petals, and many others, over a hundred being in 
flower. There were also good forms of Miltonioda Ajax, Odontioda Sandere,. 
and O. grata. We also noted a number of capsules in the house. 
Two other houses of Odontoglossums, mostly seedlings, followed, and 
here we noted O. Rolfeze x Pescatorei, almost like a white O. Pescatorei, 
some good O, altum, with examples of O. cordatum, maculatum, and 
Cervantesii, Odontioda Charlesworthii and Bradshawiz, and a nice batch 
of Sophronitis grandiflora. Here were also a number of capsules from 
interesting crosses. 
We now visited two Phalznopsis houses and found an immense number 
of plants in the most robust health. In the first was a batch of P. 
Schilleriana, and Mr. Sander remarked that last February there were 
about 500 spikes of flowers, forming quite a picture. They are grown in 
baskets of osmunda fibre, suspended over a layer of leaves, and since: 
flowering had been kept rather dry, but as new roots were beginning to 
push the supply of water would now be increased. The plants were 
remarkably sturdy and clean, and a single example was in bloom, also a 
very rosy form of P. Sanderiana, and a batch of three dozen P. Aphrodite, 
forming a beautiful group. A batch of P. Sanderiana was growing near by, 
and it was remarked how much alike they were. P. Sanderiana, however, 
has usually a broader, redder leaf, and the flowers are more or less tinged 
with rose. An albino of P. amabilis was pushing up a spike, the whole 
plant showing that peculiar pale green colour so prevalent in albinos. P- 
