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are arranged so as to keep them growing vigorously. It is here that the 
seed is generally sown, on the compost of the growing plants, the conditions 
of this house being found most suitable for the germinating seeds. As soon 
as the tiny seedlings are large enough they are pricked off on to pans of 
prepared compost. This house was specially interesting, and the number 
of minute seedlings that could be detected by the aid of a lens was 
astonishing. 
The second house is rather more heavily shaded, and is largely used 
for newly-potted plants, which need a little more care until they become 
established again, after which they are moved on as circumstances require. 
Other houses contain half-grown and older plants, up to the flowering 
stage. The plants generally are pictures of health and vigour, but Mr. 
Charlesworth remarked that a few were often found that seemed delicate 
and refused to grow, and these were thrown away. There may be the risk 
of throwing good varieties away, but unless such can be grown they are of 
little use. The aim is to raise good varieties that can be grown afterwards. 
Among plants in bloom were Miltonioda Ajax (C. Neetzliana X Miltonia 
_ Schreederiana), having reddish brown sepals and petals and a four-lobed 
buff-yellow lip, and a plant of Miltonioda Harwoodii (C. Noetzliana X 
Miltonia vexillaria), bearing a small but brilliantly-coloured flower. It is 
interesting to note that this hybrid has again been crossed on to M. 
vexillaria, and is bearing a capsule, from which something good is expected. » 
There was also a very pretty rosy Odontioda derived from C. Neetzliana X 
‘O. x Lambeauianum, which has been open for seven weeks. Odontoglossum 
Edwardii X Odontioda heatonensis has lilac-coloured flowers with some dark 
purple markings, but most resembles the seed parent. O. x Fascinator X 
crispum is a rosy flower with many round spots, such an one as might 
almost occur wild. The batch is just beginning to flower, and, being seven- 
eights crispum, should prove very instructive. O. X Fascinator X armain- 
villierense, a somewhat parallel cross, has yielded spotted forms with both 
white and yellow grounds, and varying much in other respects. O. 
triumphans X Lambeauianum has a yellow ground, with brown spots on 
the sepals and petals, and a white lip with a few spots, while O. Pescatorei 
_ x Lambeauianum has the Pescatorei shape and ground colour, with very 
regular spotting. Both these have one-eighth of O. Harryanum in their 
‘composition, and are very good growers. O. Harryanum and O. Pescatorei 
seem to give good constitutions to their hybrids, even when present in only 
avery small percentage, and this fact is being utilised in the selection of 
parents. We noted a seedling form of O. crispum with remarkably broad 
overlapping segments, which will be utilised. O. crispum x Lambeauianum 
shows a great amount of variation, one form having the greater part of the 
segments covered with a great plum-coloured blotch, and the tips lilac- 
