358 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VANDA SANDERIANA. 
See FRONTISPIECE. 
As a frontispiece to the present volume we have much pleasure in giving an 
illustration of the magnificent spécimen of Vanda Sanderiana, from the 
collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford, Essex, 
to which a’ Gold Medal was given by the Royal Horticultural Society 
on October 13th last. As was recorded at page 347, the plant, when 
exhibited, bore an aggregate of 127 flowers; but one raceme of ten flowers 
was over, and had been removed. Its general appearance is shown in the 
il which is reproduced from a photograph kindly sent by Mr. 
Fowler, and we congratulate him and his gardener, Mr. Davis, on such an 
example of cultural skill. It serves to recall the famous specimen of 
Ceelogyne Dayana from the collection of Baron Schréder, and of 
Epidendrum Stamfordianum from that of Sir Trevor Lawrence, of which 
details have been given in these pages. 
Mr. Fowler has sent the following note, which will be read with 
interest :—‘‘ I purchased the Vanda Sanderiana from Messrs. Low & Co. 
on the 15th August, 1895. It flowered first in September of that year, 
bearing two flower spikes and seventeen flowers. It was brought over by 
Messrs. Low’s collector in a large basket, and in the June following I 
thought it advisable to repot it. It flowered again in October last, with 
twelve spikes and 137 flowers in all. It has grown in the East India house, 
on the centre stage, over a large tank of rain water, and has seven growths, 
three of them being 3ft. 6ins. in height. Since it has been with me it has 
made four pairs of leaves.” 
The history of the species is thus given by Messrs. Veitch in their 
Manual (VII., p. 103) :— This remarkable Vanda, one of the most 
appreciable gains to horticulture during the last decade, was discovered by 
M. Roebelin, the energetic collector of Messrs. Sander & Co., who succeeded, 
in 1882, in reaching the previously unexplored portion of south-east 
Mindanao, where he detected this, and the scarcely less remarkable Aérides 
Lawrence and Phalenopsis Sanderiana. Our own collector, David Burke, 
also succeeded in reaching the same region a few months later, and from 
that time these fine Orchids became generally distributed among the Orchid 
collections of Europe and America. The principal station of Vanda 
Sanderiana is at Davao, on the south-east coast of Mindanao, at places 
growing on trees that over-hang the beach, and where the long trailing 
roots of this Orchid are often within reach of the salt spray. It flowered 
for the first time in this country in the summer of 1883, in the collection of 
Mr. Lee, at Downside, Leatherhead, since dispersed.” 
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