290 THE QRCHID REVIEW. [OCTOBER, 1907, 
a good grower with bad houses may be half a success, he can never do him. — : 
self justice. Orchids give endless pleasure to all concerned when they are 
grown well, and endless vexation when they are not ; but there is no reason 
why the latter should ever be the case, for (with a few notorious exceptions) 
the fault does not lie with the Orchid, but with some part of its treatment. 
Messrs. Sander have never been slow to acknowledge faulty constructions 
in their establishment, and have never hesitated to spend money freely on 
altering or rebuilding. 
A new seedling house, the incubator for Lelio-cattleyas, is a model of 
its kind, and has some features new to me, notably perforated zinc staging 
on which to stand the little pots. Zinc is a metal peculiarly distasteful to 
some insects, and keeps singularly clean, not oxidising with the moisture. 
Slugs never venture on it, and it should be excellent for Odontoglossum 
seedling houses. The centre staging in this house is entirely cased in, but 
is portable in short sections, permitting of any part being cleaned and 
replaced without the rest being disturbed. The piers supporting the stages 
are standing in miniature cement tanks, so that the plants are secured from 
cockroaches, &c. There are pipes and valves in plenty, the whole being 
constructed for an object regardless of the cost. 
In the first Orchid houses under notice, containing a wide range of 
genera and species which require somewhat the same temperature, a nice 
lot of Habenaria Susanne were flourishing extremely at the top and hotter 
end. Batches of Cypripedium Gratrixianum, which is proving itself a very 
good grower, and C. annamense were noted here. Among a lot of Bulbo- _ 
phyllums was an unflowered species having beautiful leaves. Interesting 
also were a number of-plants in flower of Phaius amboinensis, much like a 
white P. maculatus. A large number of Cypripedium concolor Sander® 
were throwing up their scapes. This is a particularly floriferous variety, 
bearing more than the usual number of flowers on the scape. Ccelogyne 
Lawrenceana, one of about twenty new species recently introduced from 
Annam, is represented by a good number of plants. The finest known 
specimens of Arachnanthe Lowii calls also for mention. This plant has 
carried as many as twenty-four spikes at once. A remarkable specimen of : 
Nanodes Meduse was pointed out at the top of the Odontoglossum hous — 
It seems that to grow this plant successfully it requires treating almost & — 
an aquatic, always in a state of saturation. A fine lot of Odontoglossu™ 
Uroskinneri were flourishing on the centre stage of this house one specimen a 
being two feet in diameter. This house, though a perfectly coo: Odonto- 
glossum house, seems to suit it admirably. 
We now come to the flowering-size Lzlio-cattleyas, which are contained : | 
in the large houses. There was an excellent show of L.-c. bletchleyens's ’ | 
flower, and a very remarkable strain it was, the blooms being large and full 
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