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Adula, and there are some recent additions of great promise. So numerous 
-are the hybrids at the present that we can only mention a few that are of 
proved merit. 
Lelia pumila is now making a fine display, and is a plant which takes 
up very little room, and is of the easiest possible culture. It succeeds best 
in shallow pans suspended from the roof of the Intermediate house, in the 
usual compost. A few of its hybrids with the Cattleyas of the labiata 
group are also good, but are not at all common.  Leeliocattleyas and 
Brassocattleyas vary considerably in their flowering period, but a good 
number are now in bloom and are very beautiful. 
Vanda ccerulea and V. Kimballiana succeed well in the Cattleya house, 
in a light airy situation, and both are now flowering freely and are of great 
decorative value. The former does not succeed everywhere, but a suitable 
situation can generally be found, and a plant of such merit is worth an 
effort to cultivate. The beautiful Dendrobium Phalenopsis is also flowering 
well and is very beautiful. It requires a warm, light situation, and should 
be encouraged to grow and flower early, as its flowers are particularly 
susceptible to fog. 
Oncidiums are making a fine display, and one of the best is the pretty 
light purple O. ornithorrhynchum. It is of moderate size and very flori- 
ferous, producing short panicles of numerous flowers. It succeeds well 
grown in deep pans, suspended from the roof of the Intermediate house, 
and well-grown plants are’now a mass of flowers, and exceedingly graceful. 
The variety album is equally charming, and forms a very effective contrast 
to the typical form. O. oblongatum is a much taller yellow-flowered 
species which is now flowering in profusion, and is very attractive. O. 
tigrinum is a striking Mexican plant which is also very effective, producing 
strong spikes of flowers, with yellow and brown sepals and petals and a 
large yellow lip. ©. varicosum and its fine variety Rogersii are also 
flowering in the greatest profusion, and their bright yellow flowers have 
been not inaptly compared to a swarm of graceful butterflies. O.crispum, 
O. Forbesii and two or three other Brazilian species also make a good 
display in the autumn, and are worthy of more attention. O. cheirophorum 
is a very dwarf and free-flowering species which is very attractive, and 
suitable for growing in hanging pans in the Intermediate house. The 
flowers are rather small though delightfully fragrant, and one cannot help 
wondering what would be the result of crossing it with some of the large- 
_ flowered yellow species, whose chief fault is that in some cases the panicles 
are rather too tall for a small house. 
A good many plants of Odontoglossum crispum flower in the autumn, 
and the Odontoglossum house is gay with various forms of this popular 
species, and a number of hybrids, which also seem to flower at very varicus 
