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Mendelii in sheath. The next house contained C. Trianz; while the next 
had many thousands of C. labiata, some fine specimens, and also large 
quantities of Oncidium oblongatum and O. Wentworthianum, the former 
flowering in July, while the latter comes in a month later. There were also 
in this house three exceptional specimens of Oncidium phymatochilum 
having an aggregate of twenty-seven spikes, a batch of O. Cavendishianum 
in spike, &c. 
The Lelia anceps, which include the best varieties, are next seen in the 
corridor. We now come to a house full on one side of unflowered 
C. Mendelii in sheath, while the other side was full of C. Gaskelliana. We 
reach the high water mark of Cattleya culture in this house. The C. 
Gaskelliana have been in culture for several years, but they keep on multi- 
plying their leads with pleasing consistency, and the plants were bristling 
with new breaks, wide and strong, and there would have been no difficulty 
in picking out fifty plants having an average of ten leads each. These were 
not originally large pieces, and are even now in relatively small pots. A plant 
picked up at random had nine bulbs and seven breaks, and this percentage 
would nearly have worked out throughout the batch. Too much could not 
‘be said for the vigorous and compact plants of C. Mendelii—clean, distinct- 
looking, and full of sheaths. The house following was filled on one side 
with C. Schroederz in bud and flower, some good varieties being open, and 
on the other side were a further lot of C. Mendelii. The next house was 
ffull of C. Schroeder, gigas, &c., the former occupying one-half the space. 
Then comes a house having on one side unflowered C. Mendelii in sheath, and 
the other side C. Mossiz in sheath. The next house contained C. Skinner 
and fine specimens of C. Gaskelliana unflowered. 
We now come to the Cattleya house containing the choice varieties, and 
this will require closer inspection. The Cattleya Trianz were mostly over 
at the time of my visit, but plants of the following lovely varieties were 
noted in stock : Westonbirt var., Jonesiana, Lowi, Optima, Mrs. De Barryi 
‘Crawshay, Titania, The Don, Mrs. Edward Sondheim, albo-violacea, 
Goliath, Empress of India, Emerald, Bona, and many other less known 
choice varieties. A plant whose flowers were being looked forward to 
‘with much impatience and expectancy was a suppgsed C. speciosissima alba. 
‘This was sent over as a white C. Mossia. This plant had been growing 
in the establishment for four years without flowering, but was now in bud. 
It had, however, in the meantime been duplicated, and there were several 
plants of it hanging up together. There were also a nice lot of C. Skin- 
neri alba, a score or so C. “Gaskelliana alba, a large number of C. inter- 
media alba, one of the largest lots of this free-growing and free-flowering 
pure white Cattleya in the country; also two plants of C. i. coerulea, a 
Pure white form of good shape having a blue lip. Next came a lot of the 
