OCTOBER, 1907. } THE ORCHID REVIEW. 317 
DISA GRANDIFLORA. 
A REMARKABLE plant of Disa grandiflora is illustrated from a photograply 
in a recent issue of the Garden (p. 407). It was grown by Mr. T. Jenkins, 
gardener to Miss Rashleigh, Abbey House, Netley Abbey. Mr. Jenkins: 
remarks that the photograph was taken five years ago, the plant then carry- 
ing 150 blooms. The following October he divided it into three, and at the 
present time the largest, in an 18-inch pot, has ninety-seven blooms, some 
of the stems being two feet long. The other two plants are in 14-inch pots, 
and have seventy-four and seventy blooms. He grows them ina large green- 
house, forty feet long by twenty feet broad, all the year round, the house 
being shaded with ‘‘ Summer Cloud.” After flowering, he keeps them on 
the dry side until all the foliage dies down, and then trims them up as is. 
done with a maiden-hair fern in March. They begin to grow in October, 
and flower in August. The soil consists of plenty of sphagnum moss, 
and a little rough peat, beech leaf mould, crocks of pots, and a little 
sharp sand. He has had good results with the species for the past 
twelve years, and in conclusion remarks, “ I use rain water always, and the 
temperature in the winter often drops to freezing point.” The plant forms 
a picture, and such success with this beautiful species is rarely seen. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
SEVERAL beautiful Orchids are sent from the collection of Major G. L. 
Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, by Mr. Alexander. Brassocattleya Madame 
Hye superba is said to be out of the original batch of seedlings, but by far 
the best of the batch. It is larger than the original, but similar in shape 
and colour, and is certainly very handsome. Sophrocatlelia Phyllis and 
Brassocatlalia Rowena are described on another page. There is alsoa 
very fine spike of the rare and beautiful Oncidium Jonesianum, a plant now 
seldom seen in good condition. 
A beautiful flower of Lzlio-cattleya callistoglossa is sent from the 
collection of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Bir- 
o remarks that it was purchased as a seedling 
mingham, by Mr. Mackay, wh 
from Cattleya gigas X aurea, but this is clearly erroneous. : 
: Five beautiful forms of Cattleya x Iris are sent from the collection of 
G. W. Jessop, Esq., Cliffe Cottage, Rawdon, Leeds, showing much of the 
remarkable range of colour to which this fine hybrid is subject. One has 
salmon-coloured sepals aud petals and a brilliant amethyst-purple lip, and 
another is rich brownish orange, with a mottling of yellow on the purple lip, 
while the others are variously intermediate. There is also a very beautiful 
Lelio-cattleya Dominiana, with very light sepals and petals and an intense 
velvety purple lip, forming a very strong contrast. 
