‘SEPTEMBER, 1910.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 269 
practised. As with the Odontoglossums, the seeds are sown on the compost 
of the parent plants, or on that of growing seedlings, as no success has been 
obtained by making up pots of new compost, as is so successfully practised 
with Cattleyas and allied genera. Some interesting crosses from C. X Niobe 
and other C. Fairrieanum hybrids were pointed out, also from C. insigne 
Harefield Hall var. 
In the main range a lot of interesting things were in bloom, a few of 
which were noted. In the first house entered was a good plant of Odonto- 
glossum Harryanum, rather lighter in colour than the old type, several 
O. hastilabium and Uroskinneri, with a seedling from O. cirrhosum X Uro- 
skinneri in spike, also Brassia maculata and two B. longissima, Oncidium 
longipes and trulliferum, the latter in spike, Trichosma suavis, Angraecum 
falcatum, Maxillaria tenuifolia, venusta and marginata, a remarkable plant 
of Cryptophoranthus Dayanus literally crowded with flowers, over 250 in 
number, Polystachya bracteosa, a good Nanodes Meduse, a fine form of 
Miltonia Warscewiczii, M. vexillaria superba, a lot of M. x Hyeana, several 
plants of the rare Zygopetalum Burkei, some well-flowered Trichopilia 
Turialve, Warscewiczella marginata, Schlimmia trifida in bud, &c.; while 
among cool-growing subjects were Promenza stapelioides and P. xanthina, 
Pleurothallis maculata, the remarkable P. ornata, with its club-shaped 
marginal appendages to the sepals, numerous Masdevallias, including 
gemmata, trydactylites, velifera, Chestertoni, calura, Reichenbachiana, an 
various others. 
A good sprinkling of flowers was noticed among the Cypripediums, 
including C. Dayanum, superbiens, Curtisii, Lawrenceanum, &c., also C. X 
Rossetti, raised in the collection and quite typical in character. A capsule 
of C. Charlesworthii Bromilowiz x bellatulum album was pointed out, and 
it is interesting to speculate as to what the result will be like. 
An Odontoglossum house contained a lot of interesting things in bloom, 
and it was curious to see among a number of O. X Rolfez some that had the 
branched inflorescence and numerous flowers of O. Pescatorei, and others 
the simple spikes, and fewer larger flowers of O. Harryanum. A similar 
character was noticed in O. X armainvillierense, some plants having simple 
crispum-like spikes, while others were much branched, one of the latter 
‘having as many as twelve side branches, and the flowers approached 
O. Pescatorei in character. One plant had crispum-like flowers without 
spots, another was very regularly spotted, and it was pointed out that 
O. Pescatorei x O. crispum Graireanum gave both, white and blotched 
forms. We noted also good examples of O. x Cooksoni, O. x hibernicum, 
O. X Hallio-Adrianz, fairly intermediate in character, O. X Phoebe; which 
grows larger than either parent, one having a spike over four feet high, O. x 
spectabile with a very fine spike, also O. Thompsonianum and O. x elegans in 
