May, 1906.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 133 
ORCHIDS AT CLARE LAWN, 
THE rich collection of Orchids at Clare Lawn, East Sheen, the residence 
of Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., always contains something of interest, and 
when calling on Mr. Young the other day we observed several noteworthy 
things. 
In the Cool houses many good Odontoglossums were in bloom, including 
nice batches of O. Rossii and O. Cerstedii, with O. Reichenheimii, O. 
apterum, two good O. x elegans, O. x Wilckeanum, very good pure white 
and blush forms of O. crispum, and a form of O. x Adriane much nearer O, 
Hunnewellianum Ben the bac dais With them were a few bright Mas- 
devallias, well-fl difl Cymbidium Devonianum 
showing seven spikes, some ood Cy, peipediuas bellatulum, a good specimen 
of Miltonia vexillaria with ten spikes and over fifty flowers, and the natural 
hybrid zygocolax X Veitchii var. Kromeri, which recently formed the subject 
of a plate in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7,980). 
In other houses we noted the striking Brassia brachiata, the Annamese 
Cymbidium Schroederi, a fine form of Oncidium sarcodes, a finely-flowered 
D Br and Lelia Boothiana with three spikes. Mr. 
Young does not regard this as difficult to flower in a light position. 
A Warm house contained two plants.of the purple Vanda Parishii Mar- 
riottiana in flower, with a nice batch of Cypripedium niveum, Megaclinium 
falcatum, with over a dozen of its curious spikes, Spathaglottis x aureo- 
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Vieillardii, and the handsome ‘gop XR gi showing 
three spikes. 
The Phalznopsis house is always a centre of attraction, and among a 
lot of plants in flower we noted good examples of P. Schilleriana and 
amabilis, P. sumatrana with three spikes, P. Mannii, P. fuscata, and nearly 
a dozen P. Luedd i which propag itself freely from the old 
flower spikes. The free-flowering and striking Zygonisia x Rolfeana was 
again in flower, producing three spikes, together with Angraecum Sanderi- 
anum, Miltonia Roezlii, and several good Cypripedes, the more noteworthy 
being C. X Eira, C. Mastersianum with several blooms, C. x delicatulum, 
a fine form of C. X Kerchoveanum called W. H. Young, and a lot of C. 
barbatum and Lawrenceanum, one abnormal flower of the latter having the 
sepals united, and lateral, while a single petal occurred on the opposite 
side of the flower. 
In a small lobby at the entrance of this house a good plant of Dendro- 
bium Falconeri thrives, being syringed several times daily, and was pro- 
ducing numerous spikes, while in the rock house the fine Cymbidium 
x I’Ansoni was in bloom with several good C. Lowianum, and Dendro- 
bium infundibulum. 
