aa THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Mav, 1907. 
house. The good varieties were arranged together at one end, and included 
the following, many of which were duplicated :—Odontoglossum crispum 
‘varieties—Queen Victoria, The Tsar, Victoria-Regina, The Earl, Jeanette, 
Luciani, Annie, Lindeni, Raymond Crawshay, xanthotes Walkeriez, anda 
variety of great promise named Prima Donna. Two good varieties of luteo- 
-purpureum were Coundon Court var. and Vuylstekeanum. There were also 
many O. X excellens, O. X Adrian, including Low’s var. (in flower), 
O. Uro-Skinneri album, O. bictoniense album, many O. X_ Harryano- 
-crispum, &c. Suspended were numbers of Sophronitis cernua and S. 
grandiflora brilliantly in flower, there being an exceptionally fine specimen 
of the latter species in a basket. Raised on pots among the Odonto- 
glossums were a number of Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, C. ensifolium, 
-some strong plants in flower of C. X Wiganianum, large finely-marked 
varieties raised in the collection, C. insigne and C. tigrinum, the latter 
-a rather rare species. 
The next house, the same size as the foregoing, is also devoted to 
‘Odontoglossums, and is one-half full of O. Pescatorei, an endless number of 
which were in flower, and the type was an excellent one. O. Pescatorei is, 
‘when well grown, most generous with its blooms, and its branched scape 
is one of the most graceful in the genus, but it is somewhat weedy unless 
well grown. I thigk I am right in saying that O. Pescatorei is not 
generally so well done as O. crispum, but it seemed to me that the reverse 
-was the case at Messrs. Low’s, and, as an honest chronicler, I will give what 
I consider the reason. The house in which the Odontoglossums are grown 
here are much higher pitched than seems good for Odontoglossums, for this 
means more heat in summer than flatter roofed houses would catch. I 
also thought that the atmosphere on the day of my visit was dryer than 
-seemed good for Odontoglossums in the middle of March, and although this 
might have been fancy I noticed the same feeling when here six years ag9- 
I do not wish to be misunderstood, for both O. crispum and O. Pescatorel 
‘were doing well, but I could not help feeling that the latter were having 
the best of it. Is this the secret, that a dryer and possibly slightly warmer : 
-atmosphere than is usually given to O. crispum will suit O. Pescatorel — 
better? Although there were comparatively few Pescatorei in this estab- 
lishment when I was here before, the few were excellently well doné ‘ 
hanging in pans with bulbs like cricket balls. Hanging in pans were 
‘O. Cervantesii, and others, while raised on pots were a further lot of 
Cymbidiums, namely, eburneum, X Winnianum, Lowianum concolor in 
spike, Hookerianum, and others, besides Oncidium maculatum, robust ; 
pieces of Odontoglossum Edwardii, &c. : 
In acool corridor away from the sun an interesting experiment was 7 
being made with a batch of Cattleya Mossie, having an aggregate of 1,500 9 
