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VII. and White’s var., four plants of Cooksonianum, Britannia, Duke of 
Connaught, Ed. Roehrs, very beautiful and greatly improved since first 
acquired, Alpha, five plants of Luciani, a strong plant of Mrs. Peters with 
two good leads, Mrs. Rogerson, Perfection, Mabel Whateley, Lindenii, and 
many other beautiful blotched forms which Mr. Rogerson has purchased 
unnamed at different times, and which will not be allowed to flower until 
grown into strong plants. 
Altogether Mr. Rogerson must be complimented on the taste with which 
he has formed his collection, and the improvement the plants are showing 
under the care and skill of Mr. Price, and though I had not seen nearly all, 
the darkness of a rapidly closing-in evening drove me away. 
; H. THorp. 
ORCHIDS FROM WESTONBIRT. 
SEVERAL very beautiful flowers are sent from the collection of Major G. L. 
Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, by Mr. Alexander, who remarks that they 
are cut from plants exhibited in the group to which a Gold Medal was 
awarded on October 29th. Cattleya x fulvescens Westonbirt var., which 
gained a First-class Certificate, is a remarkable form, and the combination 
of C. Dowiana aurea with C. Forbesii has produced a lip which, as Mr. 
Alexander points out, recalls some hybrids of Phaius tuberculosus, being 
broad, strongly undulate, and remarkably veined and mottled with crimson 
and brown on an orange yellow ground. The flower is very large, of excel- 
lent shape, and the sepals and petals broad and of a peculiar shade of buff 
yellow. It is the only one like it out of a batch of seedlings, standing alone 
in size, shape, and colouring, and Mr. Alexander considers it one of the 
finest and most distinct Cattleya hybrids yet raised. Two others which 
received First-class Certificates are C. labiata alba Purity, a chaste. 
beauty, having the petals over 24 inches broad, and C. xX Fabia gigantea 
avery large and richly-coloured variety, the lip being over 24 inches broad. 
C. x Fabia gloriosa is remarkably rich in colour, the sepals and petals 
being very dark purple, and the lip is deep velvety crimson in front, with’ 
deep orange veining in the throat—one of the best combinations between 
C. labiata and C. Dowiana aurea. All the three preceding carried four 
flowers on the inflorescence. Cattleya x Cleopatra (superba x Dowiana 
aurea) is another great beauty, like an enlarged C. superba, with a very 
broad open lip, regularly lined with yellow in the throat and on the base of 
the front lobe, the lines terminating quite abruptly in front, the rest of 
the front lobe being dark purple-crimson in colour. The spike bore never 
flowers, producing a very imposing effect. Sophrocattleya Nydia is diffi- 
cult to describe, the colour being between scarlet and brick-red, with some 
brown dots on the sepals and petals, and some yellow in the throat of the 
