144 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
two very good varieties. Dendrobes appear to be the favourite flowers 
with both rich and poor, and little wonder there is such a variety among 
them, as the flowers are lasting. Along with these were some Cattleyas, 
and Odontoglossum Rossii at the one end, which has been very cheap of 
late, flowering profusely. They were a nondescript lot, huddled together 
without any semblance of order, the desire being more to get the flowers. 
It was a small house, divided into two compartments, and out of his 
modest earnings he has saved enough to get up a very nice collection. 
He began buying cheap plants, but he has gone on, and is now dis- 
pensing with his common plants and getting some of the better articles. 
As he said, we must “creep before we walk.” Every penny he can spare 
in a fair way goes to the purchase of Orchids. I was surprised to see, 
for instance, nice lots of Cypripedium x Leeanum giganteum in fine 
flower, snd one of the best, too; 
D 
and also the Stand Hall variety. of 
X splendidissi grandiflorum, as well as such good things 
as = 3 Cookson and D. x Ainsworthii. In the cooler division were an 
wn lot of Od 
crispum, and plants of that order. 
One aE like to see the plants more orderly arranged ; however, they 
were clean and free from insects. 
These men read Orchid literature 
greedily, but they have generally a mind of their own; and although 
they are in some measure guided by a Calendar of Operations, each has 
his own way with particular favourites.—J. A. in Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
me 
LACZENA SPECTABILIS. 
A PLANT of this rare but very pretty Orchid has just flowered in the Kew 
collection, producing a raceme of 
thirteen flowers, which are pale lilac, 
densely speckled all over with a darker shade of lilac-purple, and the front — 
lobe of the lip similarly speckled’ with a much deeper atts Se It is a native 
of Central America, and was originally d d andi d to cult” 
vation by Warscewicz. It first flowered in the collection of Herr Nauem, 
of Berlin, and was described under the name of Nauenia spectabilis by 
Klotzsch (Allg. Gartenz., XXI., p. 
193), who overlooked the fact that it 
belonged to Lindley’s genus Lacena. It is allied to Acineta, and bears @ 
similar pendulous raceme, though the flowers differ in structure The 
lip is stalked, and the side lobes erect and rounded, with a prominent callus 
between them, while the front lobe i 
somewhat reflexed. It is figured at 
and 
broadly trulliform, again stalked, 
is broadly trulliform, ag: 7 
t. 6516 of the Botanical Magazine. 
only other species is L. bicolor, Lindl., a native of Guatemala, and scarcely 
as ornamental as the present one. 
tent as the Acinetas, 
It will succeed under the same treat- 
R, A. Re 
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