JULY, rgro.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 199 
ORCHIDS AT FAIRLAWN, PUTNEY, 
A COLLECTION of Orchids which has frequently been represented at the 
meetings of the R.H.S. during recent years is that of H. S. Goodson, Esq., 
Fairlawn, Putney, some notes of which have appeared in these pages (O. R., 
Xiv. pp. 353-356; xv. pp. 262-263). Calling on Mr. Day a fortnight ago 
we found a number of fine things in flower, especially in the Cool house, 
where a fine lot of Odontoglossums and allied genera are grown. The 
brilliant little hybrid genus Odontioda was well represented, four plants of 
the charming O. heatonensis being in bloom, bearing several spikes of pink 
and white flowers, in which the characters of Cochlioda vulcanica and 
Odontoglossum cirrhosum are combined. It has been crossed with Odonto- 
glossum X eximium and O. x Harryano-crispum, and if seedlings are 
obtained some interesting forms should result. A plant of O. Charles- 
worthii carried two spikes of very richly-coloured flowers, and O. Devossiana 
was throwing up a fine spike. The brilliant O. Bohnhoffie was in bloom, 
and the dark-coloured O. Ernest-Henry in bud. Various others not just 
then in bloom were pointed out, for the genus is represented by a fine batch 
of plants, in thriving condition. 
Odontoglossum crispum was represented by a fine series of white and 
blotched varieties, the former chiefly selected from a large lot of imported 
plants. O.c. xanthotes was in bloom, and the finer variety Charlesworthii 
was throwing up a good spike. O.c. Prince Albert is a richly-coloured 
variety derived from two blotched forms. In O.c. Mrs. E. C. Bourdas the 
blotches on the sepals are orange-brown and those of the petals red-purple, 
forming a distinct contrast. O. c. President Falliéres is a pretty form with 
rather light-coloured blotches. O.c. The Mikado is another good form 
with light blotches. Four different forms of O. X armainvillierense were 
in bloom, showing considerable variation in the size and arrangement of the 
blotches. ©. X amabile was represented by three fine varieties, Rosetta 
having a rosy ground colour, and the brown spots at the base of the petals 
thickly aggregated together, while Frederickie has a somewhat similar 
arrangement of red-brown spots on a white ground. O. X Captain 
Humphreys is a well-blotched form of doubtful parentage, though the 
characters of O. Harryanum and O. crispum are very obvious. O. X 
eximium radium is almost suffused with red-brown except at the whitish 
margin. Five forms of O. apterum (nebulosum) were in bloom, and showed 
much variation in the amount of spotting. Among others in flower we noted 
forms of O. X Andersonianum, triumphans, Hunnewellianum, Harryanum, 
luteopurpurem, X Lambeauianum, &c., while O. X Wiganianum was pro- 
ducing a very fine spike, of which the bottom flower was just expanding, 
the colour being bright yellow, blotched with brown. 
