Dye tot REVIEW. 
VoL. XVIII.] JANUARY, IgIo. [No. 205. 
ORCHIDS AT ARDDARROCH, GARELOCHHEAD, N.B. 
BEING in Scotland about the middle of October, it was my good fortune to 
visit Arddarroch, the seat of R. Brooman-White, Esq. Arddarroch lies 
cosily in the valley of Loch Long and is flanked by rugged hills, and here 
the climate seems peculiarly suited to the cultivation of Orchids, in particular 
to that of Odontoglossum crispum, which is, and always has been, Mr. 
White’s favourite, and of which twenty thousand plants may be seen here in 
most exceptional vigour. It is all the year round humid, and Loch Long 
being salt water no doubt contributes to the persuasiveness of the growing 
conditions of this favoured locality. The glass houses are really built up 
the base of a hill, from which water is constantly trickling, and there is 
actually in one of the houses a natural spring, and damping down in the 
Cool houses is never required at all.. Sphagnum moss grows abundantly in 
the locality, and the winter is mild and equable. 
To these climatically advantageous conditions must be added an 
enthusiasm of long standing and a ripe experience, for Mr. White’s is among 
the older collections in the kingdom. The collection has been for the last 
year in the charge of Mr. J. Smith, an Orchid grower of long and varied 
experience, and who had for some years charge of the Cambridge Lodge 
collection, now but a recollection, and the general excellence of the plants 
at Arddarroch highly commend his capabilities as a grower, and also his 
adaptability. 
There are some thirteen houses and divisions devoted to Orchids at 
Arddarroch, and no fewer than ten of these are filled with Odontoglossums. 
The named standard varieties of Odontoglossum crispum number sixty, and 
there are a considerable number of the fine Odonto. hybrids, which are now 
coming so rapidly to the front. 
The accepted season for flowering O. crispum is spring and early summer, 
and although where a large number are grown there is always a sprinkling 
in flower during the autumn and winter, the flowers usually come poorer 
during these late months. At Arddarroch, however, many hundreds were 
magnificently in flower in Octcber, and a succession in spike that would go 
well into the winter, and it would be difficult to overpraise the wonderful 
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