MArcu, 1907] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 69 
WELLESLEY, FRANCIS, J.P., Westfield, Woking. 
Wuite, W. H., Burford Lodge Gardens, Dorking. 
Younc, W. H., Clare Lawn Gardens, East Sheen, S.W. 
ORCHIDS AT MESSRS STANLEY & CO.'S, SOUTHGATE. 
BEING in Southgate and with sufficient time to spare for a quick run 
through the nurseries of the above firm I availed myself of the opportunity. 
This is a nursery devoted entirely to Orchids, Messrs. Stanley & Co. being 
prominent as large importers from South America, and I found here an 
immense stock of established and semi-established Cattleyas, Lzeelias, 
Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, &c., and it being impossible to describe the 
houses seriatim I shall content myself with mentioning a few things. The 
Cattleyas included a fine lot of unflowered C. Mossia, among which were 
two gigantic specimens having 50 to 100 leads, imported as being white, 
but not yet proved. These and hundreds of others are in sheath. A 
duplicate of C. M. Victoria-Regina, the beautiful blue variety which was 
awarded a F.C.C. last year, was pointed out, and this is only one of the 
many fine C. Mossiz which this firm has flowered. The C. Mendelii were 
a fine lot of plants, many hundreds being in sheath, and I was interested to 
find here a batch of six hundred of the somewhat scarce C. Warneri. This 
is considered a rather shy-flowering Cattleya, but this lot has made sheaths 
with great freedom. C. labiata is represented by some thousands of plants, 
asis also C. Triane. Among the latter in flower were two albino forms— 
one pure white, and the other, having heliotrope markings on the lip. I 
was also fortunate in seeing among the C. Harrisoniana a beautiful pure 
white variety open, and I do not think I have ever seen the form eclipsed 
among coloured varieties. This is a decided acquisition, and was alone 
worth the visit. There were also large quantities of Lelia tenebrosa and 
L. crispa in sheath, some of the former having enormous bulbs. 
Among the Oncidiums were some 500 QO. concolor showing spike, also 
large numbers of O. varicosum Rogersii, crispum, Marshallianum, &c. The 
interesting O. X Stanleyi, supposed to be a natural hybrid between 
O. curtum and O. Marshallianum, is represented by three plants. 
Other kinds of Orchids which were here in large numbers were 
Zygopetalum crinitum, Dendrobium Phalaenopsis, a batch of five hundred 
Odontoglossum Harryanum, many hundreds of unflowered Sophronitis 
grandiflora, &c. In the Odontoglossum house were many thousands of 
O. crispum, and many of these, and also O. x Adriane, were in flower. 
Thére are also a number of smaller houses where the choicer plants are 
being cared for, and good progress is now being made with home-raising, 
but I had not time to go closely into these. J. M. B. 
