4 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JAnuary, 1906, 
hundred flowers of C. i. Sanderce open at once, and the picture was well 
worth a long journey to see. I believe Mr. Bolton holds the largest stock 
of this variety of anyone in the kingdom, his plants numbering well over four 
hundred growths, and all have been propagated from what were about 
twenty small plants three and a half years ago. 
Mr. Bolton pointed out to me with pride (and very justly) a grand plant 
of C. Chamberlainianum, with leaves nearly half a yard long, and fully 
three and three quarter inches wide (measured)! It made one wonder if it 
were not some new Dracena, but a well developed flower on a strong spike 
quickly dispelled all doubts. Here were also in flower C. i. Harefield Hall 
var. and Youngianum, both fine, C. i. Bohnhofianum, and most of the 
varieties of C. insigne, both yellow and spotted. In this house the visitor 
is surrounded by nearly all the aristocrats of the Cypripedium world, of 
which brief mention can only be made. I noticed about twenty plants of C. X 
Maudie, growing along with its parents, C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum and 
C. callosum Sandere. C. x aureum Surprise was in fine health, as also- 
were C. X Leeanum Clinkaberryanum, C. xX L. giganteum, C. x L. 
superbum, C. Acteus, and C. x Prospero, while about fifty plants of 
C. x Euryades were making a brave show. Mr. Bolton possesses about 
forty plants of the re-discovered C. Fairrieanum, several of which have 
flowered, and one or two are already bearing promising seed pods. 
Mr. Bolton feels sure this species will astonish Orchidists when it is- 
better understood, say in a year or two, when fairly established with strong 
roots, and he certainly has several plants which are growing away most 
vigorously. I also noticed a big batch of C. Charlesworthii of very good 
form, having larger dorsal sepals and fine texture, while C. x Arthurianum 
and C. X Hitchinsiz were making a fine show. 
In another house were growing, like weeds, the difficult- i a Miltonia 
Roezlii, and a thriving little lot of M. R.1 gl and M. 
Cattleyas of the labiata section are well represented here, by fees of 
strong plants, particularly striking being a group of C. Dowiana aurea 
bearing over a score of beautiful flowers. ‘These were only surpassed by a 
splendidly flowered houseful of C. labiata, consisting of about four hundred 
plants, and these, of various tints, being intermixed with fine spikes of 
Oncidium varicosum, mostiy var. Rogersii, made up a delightful colour 
picture. Another house gave room for about a thousand plants of the 
C. gigas and C. Dowiana aurea neta cowg unflowered, while overhead 
hung a robust looking lot of Dend 1 and about a score 
of D. nobile album. 
In another house the visitor could not help being struck by the sight 
of a splendid batch of Miltonia vexillaria, in all about five hundred plants- 
These were just being repotted at the time of my visit, from four inch into: 
