2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, IQIO. 
quality of plants and flowers, and no exaggeration to say that the display 
here was quite unique. 
As the Odontoglossums flower in this large collection they are carefully 
graded, and there are thus degrees of quality in the different houses. The 
finest which the collection has yielded from importations, and which have 
been augmented by purchases in flower, are contained in a house forty feet 
long by twelve wide. This house contains about five hundred plants of 
mostly what would be called ‘“‘specimens,” and all pictures of vigorous 
health, some sixty of them being in flower and twice as many in spike ; and 
I have never seen—at any season—an equal number of crispums of such 
superlatively high quality in one batch in flower. These spikes were thick 
and woody, and the flowers of fine fleshy substance, indicating great lasting 
properties, either in a cut state or on the plants. Seen in such perfection 
O. crispum is a noble and graceful Orchid, whose eminence can never be 
challenged by Odontoglossums of hybrid origin. 
Among those in flower were O. c. xanthotes White’s var. and O. c. 
hololeucum, two choice albinos, the former with confluent yellow spots on 
the sepals and yellow spots round the margin of the lip, the segments being 
wide and beautifully fimbriated, while the latter has clear white sepals and 
petals with clear yellow disc and column wings. O. c. Flashlight is a 
variety of first-class shape, with mauve-tinted sepals and petals, and with 
large spots on the sepals and a shower of minute spots on the petals. O.c. 
White’s var. has a large, solid, dark blotch on each sepal and petal, and 
would be placed well up the ranks of the best blotched varieties. O. c. 
Trianz Reine des Belges is a beautiful, large, full. white flower, fringed, and 
fully four inches in diameter, and with a spot on each lower sepal. O. c. 
Ne Plus Ultra was pointed out in bud, which was nearly as round asa hazel 
nut, and Mr. White considers it one of the largest and finest shaped varieties 
in his collection. 
Every one of the sixty plants in flower in this house was worthy of 
individual mention, for all were of the first order, and in that condition of 
robust health when an Orchid shows its true character. The leaves were 
two to three inches wide, of fine leathery texture, and with “‘ tipping ” hardly 
existing. 3 
In this house there was no second moisture-holding stage. There was 
the open lath staging on which the plants were standing, and nothing 
between them and the pipes, which were of course low down. During the 
winter, if firing becomes frequent and fierce, it is proposed to put a ‘“‘ break- 
heat” of corrugated iron, well down on the pipes. This is to be of a 
temporary character, and will be removed again when the weather becomes 
milder. : 
The next house, about twice the size of the former, had in evidence the 
