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plants by division; the knife has been manipulated most successfully to. 
the great extension of the collection. 
Mr. Cookson has done a good deal of hybridizing and seedling raising, 
and has brought a scientific mind to his aid in the work, doing everything 
with a special object, taking the best production from one batch of seed- 
lings, and going on again with that, thus gradually working his desire in 
richness of colour and beauty of form. He showed us part of his work’s 
progress, recorded step by step in drawing, photo, &c., and gave us hints. 
on the storing of pollen, making our visit a most interesting one. 
At Mr. Leemann’s, one great aim is evidently the perfecting of the 
ventilating, heating and shading arrangements, and no trouble or expense 
is spared to this end. Here we found the system followed is not buying 
imported plants and weeding out, but buying only good things in flower, or 
duplicate plants of well-known good things. Every plant is something 
special (anyway among the Odontoglossums), and the paintings testify to 
the richness of the collection. Here, as elsewhere, the standard gets 
higher year by year, and as more room is wanted some of the older things 
are turned out and given away, and so the collection grows always better: 
We saw a very great number of paintings, and of agood many a second 
has been done of another season’s flowering to show the improvement in 
variety, and in some instances this was most marked. Mr. Leemann is 
deeply interested in every detail, and spends a great deal of time with his 
plants. His potting-house arrangements are very good, and most con- 
venient ; they run along one side of a corridor, and the Orchid houses alk 
run from the other side, so that the plants never need to go outside, but 
just across this covered way to be attended to. Here, too, he has his 
paintings stored, in large special cupboards with sliding doors, so every~ 
thing is handy and very convenient. EmILy THWAITES. 
(To be continued.) 
OBITUARY. 
JAMES ENGLEHART VANNER.—It is with much regret that we have to 
announce the death of Mr. J. E. Vanner, at his residence, Camden Wood, 
Chislehurst, on May 12th last, in his 75th year, he having survived his wife 
(after whom Cypripedium X Vannerz was named) eleven years, and his 
brother, William Vanner, six years. His garden—of which he was very 
fond—is beautifully situated on a hill overlooking the park and mansion 
of Camden House, the residence of the late Emperor of the French and 
Empress Eugenie. Among other features of the garden is the Orchid 
collection, left him by his brother William. Its formation began in 1873, 
and there is still an Odontoglossum crispum bought at Veitch’s in 1875, 
and many other varieties that have been there a quarter of a century- 
