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varieties. The plants were growing well, and the house will be a picture 
next January. 
Lastly we entered a large house largely devoted to Cattleyas and others 
requiring similar treatment, and here we found a lot of good things in 
flower. Some examples of the beautiful Dendrobium Dearei are said to be 
the remains of a good batch now nearly over. Several plants of Miltonia 
Roezlii alba were also very charming. Epiphronitis Veitchii is grown here 
in quantity with great success, and has made a brilliant show, though now 
nearly over. Cattleya was represented by nice examples of C. Gaskelliana, 
Harrisoniana, and Mendelii, while C. M. alba and C. x Mastersoniz were 
pointed out in sheath. C. Dowiana aurea was represented by a good batch 
of plants in excellent condition for flowering later on. Other interesting 
things flowering were Brassavola Digbyana, a beautiful Lelio-cattleya 
Martinetii, L.-c. callistoglossa (in bud), Epidendrum radicans, E. advena 
(Godseffianum), Oncidium varicosum and Aérides odoratum. Numerous 
choice things not in flower were pointed out, but these we must pass over. 
Everything was in thriving condition, and the luxuriance of the Odonto- 
glossums, which form the leading feature of the establishment, was remark- 
able. We shall watch their experiments with the seedlings with interest. 
The locality is evidently very suitable for Orchid culture, and Messrs. 
McBean know how to make the most of it. The work is carried out on 
thoroughly practical lines, and attention to detail and experience account 
for much of the success achieved. We shall hope to renew our acquaint- 
ance on a future occasion. 
ORCHIS INCARNATA. 
A SPECIMEN of the true flesh-coloured Orchis incarnata, L., has been sent 
to Kew by Mr. F. J. Legh-Halahan, of Bedford, which was gathered at 
Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, and fully confirms the station recorded by 
Babington in 1860 (Fl. Cambridg. p. 225). It isa matter of some import- 
ance, because when the late Mr. C. B. Clarke pointed out the confusion 
into which the species had fallen, and published a figure (Fourn. Linn. Soc. 
XIX. p. 206, t. 31), he remarked that the Hampshire and Cornish stations 
were the only British ones known for the true plant. But it is now clear 
that Babington knew the plant, and he himself remarks :—* First noticed 
by me in the year 1833, but not then distinguished from O. latifolia.” And 
Babington recorded the plant from four of the eight districts into which he 
divided the county. In the second edition of Topographical Botany, Orchis 
incarnata is recorded as occurring in thirty-seven of the 112 Vice-counties 
into which Great Britain is divided, and it is significant that in a supple- 
ment, published two years ago, thirty-eight additional Vice-counties are 
recorded, these latter records being of a later date than Mr. Clarke’s 
