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At all events we now find such remarkable species as Bulbophyllum 
Ericssoni, B. virescens, and others are being inquired after, and it may 
lead to the discovery that there is a host of other highly interesting species 
which are as easily grown as the more popular kinds if the same attention is 
given to them. I think the trouble is that there are too many. No one 
can possibly grow them all, but that is no reason why a selection should 
not be made, and a good many are of such modest dimensions that quite a 
large number could be accommodated in a small house. 
From the last remark I must exclude the giant Grammatophyllum 
speciosum, whose long delayed flowering at Kew has been one of the events 
ofthe present year. 1ts three enormous spikes were a magnificent sight, but 
a good many growers would have got tired of waiting for them, especially 
as the plant has always seemed big enough to flower, and had long been 
fully established. Fourteen years ago the giant was imported, a great leaf- 
less clump, whose portrait appeared at the time, under the title “ Monster 
Mass of Grammatophyllum Sanderianum ” (Gard. Chron., 1893, 1., Index, p. 
8.) About that time the plant was presented to Kew, and found a home 
above the tank in the Victoria Water-lily house, where at last it has con- 
descended to bloom. 
Among the lesser-known Orchids I think we might include the genera 
Cycnoches and Catasetum, and for downright eccentricity they stand with- 
out arival. The figure given at p. 337 of Cycnoches Egertonianum, which 
caused such excitement over half a century ago, came very appropriately at 
a time when the genus is again receiving attention, and some of us may yet 
see the freak repeated, though the clearing up of the mystery which 
surrounded it removes much of the element of romance. I fear we shall 
not have another such a picturesque story for a long time. 
The figures of Epidendrum Wallisii given at page 329 are equally 
interesting. I have more than once protested against inaccuracy in 
drawing and colouring, but now we see that even the camera may 
convey a false impression of a flower—indeed we have a graphic 
illustration of it, and also of the way to avoid it. Of course it is 
impossible to convey a correct idea of colour in mere black and white, but 
I should not have thought that photography could be guilty of such 
deliberate suppression of the spots on a flower as is there shown. 
All eyes are now turned towards the new method of direct colour 
photography, and I hear of two or three Orchidists who are already experi- 
i ith i ill not fail to report the results. 
menting with it. I hope they wi p eS 
