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elongata has also put in an appearance, and is very pretty, though not yet 
equal to what we were led to expect. Lelia Dayana is still good, and the 
pretty little orange-coloured L. monophylla is just now very attractive, 
while Lelio-cattleya x elegans and L.-c. x Schilleriana are not yet over. 
They have been very good this season. 
Oncidiums are always to the front in the autumn, and the species of the 
O.crispum group are now very gay. There is O. crispum itself, with a 
great panicle of its large and handsome brown flowers, with a little yellow 
on the lip; the equally brilliant O. Marshallianum, in which the yellow as 
strongly predominates; the handsome O. Forbesii ; the clear yellow O. 
concolor, which, as well as O. Marshallianum, is even better in June; the 
pretty white and purple O. incurvum with its large panicles of flowers, O. 
ornithorhynchum with much branched panicles of light-purple flowers, O. 
cesium, the graceful O. flexuosum; O. obryzatum, the handsome O. sar- 
codes; and O. micropogon with the lip prettily fringed in the middle. 
There is something so light and graceful about the Oncidiums that they 
amply repay any additional attention paid to them. Even Oncidium 
Papilio, which seems to have no particular season of flowering, is just now 
bearing several of its remarkable flowers. Odontoglossum grande is another 
of the showy plants of this season, which no collection is complete without, 
while in'the same house O. Harryanum, Miltonia candida, Cochlioda 
vulcanica, and Trichopilia fragrans are very attractive. Miltonia spectabilis 
Moreliana is still making a good show. i 
I think that without exception Vanda ccerulea is the most beautiful 
Orchid now in flower in the Cool house. Its flowers are so large, so 
beautifully reticulated with two shades of lilac-blue, quite unlike anything 
else, and so gracefully arranged in a noble raceme, that it is scarcely 
equalled at any season, and Mr. Woodall has shown that the character 
which some give it of being a bad grower is largely due to REEODES: 
treatment. Near it stands a plant of the good old Zygopetalum aE 
medium with its bold racemes of handsome and very fragrant shales * fs 
too, is unsurpassed of its kind. Other good things now flowering eely 
here are the handsome Ccelogyne ocellata, Ep dend P 
Restrepia maculata, Masdevallias bella, Carderi, macrura, and — 
bachiana, which make an interesting variety. A few flowers of the 
charming little Pleione Wallichiana are also — : 
i in flower, 
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beautiful display. There is a good deal of variation in — oe ae 
the light forms are especially charming. It is a capital t ing Sea 
both on account of its long stalked racemes, and for “the time es 
keep fresh in water. D. bigibbum is very good, and its dark purple 
rst and foremost 
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