JANUARY, 1910.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3 
same vigour, and the hundred or more spikes in flower were hardly a degree 
poorer, and three hundred spikes were following on to assure a continuation 
of the supply. Part of this house was partitioned off, and here the 
seedlings were grown. Considerable success has been made with the 
raising of them, in particular those derived from O. Edwardii, crossed with 
various crispums. Other crosses were O. triumphans X Harryano-crispum, 
crispum x Pescatorei, c. Rossendale X Adriane Cobbianum, c. Angela (a 
variety resembling Flashlight) x c. Leonard Perfect, &c. Many Cochlioda 
Neetzliana and a selection of good O. Rossii, &c., were carrying pods, so 
that raising is being seriously prepared for. A batch of Cypripedium 
insigne andC. X Leeanum were accommodated at the end of this house. 
We now cometo a house containing smaller plants, many of which were 
in spike. Suspended were a number of Sophronitis grandiflora, O. Rossii, 
&c., and at the end was a case full of small seedlings of various interesting 
crosses. Propagation from back bulbs was also being successfully carried 
on here. 
In the next house were again O. crispum and a number of O. Pescatorel, 
among them several plants of O. P. Thompsoni, a nice spotted form. 
In athree-quarter span house were a thousand fine strong plants of O. 
crispum which had been grown out of doors from the middle of June till the 
end of September, and these had done nearly, if not quite, as well as those 
in the houses, and this experiment, which was probably prompted for want 
of room, testified to the excellence of the climate. 
In this house a very puzzling plant was growing. The two imported 
bulbs resembled very much Oncidium tigrinum, but the new growth, now 
approaching two feet in length, is distichous, and in appearance something 
like Vanda ceerulea. (Probably an Ornithidium.—ED.! 
Two other Odontoglossum houses follow, one containing small unflowered 
plants of various importations, and another containing several thousand 
strong plants, two or three hundred being in flower. I noted in the various 
houses numbers of seed-pods, some fine O. Harryanum, and other things in 
flower which it will be impossible to dwell upon, as these notes are already 
getting lengthy. 
The Cattleya and Cypripedium range measures sixty feet in length, and 
has side and central staging. A partition divides it, equal parts being filled 
with Cypripediums and Cattleyas respectively. 
In the Cattleya house a good many seasonable things were in flower, 
including several C. labiata and C. Warscewiczii, Brassocattleya Maroni, 
Lzliocattleya Henry Greenwood, &c. Three seedlings of C. citrina and C, 
Mossize are nearing flowering size, and should prove interesting. Some 
Cyanide of Sodium was experimented with in this house to kill insects, and 
the results were far from satisfactory, many of the leaves being affected, and 
