270 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ___ (Seprempzr, 19 
ORCHIDS AT BURFORD. 
A VISIT to Burford at any season would repay a lover of Orchids, for these 
beautiful plants have a way of producing a succession of flowers throughout 
the year, wherever a representative collection is grown—not eyen the 
month of August forming an exception—and when the delegates to the 
recent Hybridisation Conference paid Sir Trevor Lawrence a visit, at his 
kind invitation, on the afternoon of August Ist they found a large number s 
of interesting things in bloom, and many were the visitors who madea _ 
: Jeisurely tour round the numerous houses.. There was no attempt to make — 
a “ show,”—-but we believe there is no Show House at Burford—the plants : 
had to be visited, each in its own appropriate situation, where we . 
always think they are the most attractive, and in any case the Orchidist 
likes to see where they are “ grown.” In almost every corner there was — 
something to attract attention, and a few notes on the principal things seen P 
in flower will doubtless be interesting: Our notes follow no particular i, 
order; the plants are mentioned just as we found them. We just wan 
' dered at large, and may have begun at the end or in the middle for all we — 
know, and though not our first visit it had the charm of novelty in this . 
Tespect. And we should like to take this opportunity of thanking Sit — 
Trevor on behalf of the Orchidists of the party—which was nearly every- 
body for the time being—for a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. 4 
The first house we entered contained the two fine hybrid Vandas known ~ 
as Miss Joaquim and Marguerite Maron, the former with a spike of nine — 
flowers, and the latter with as many as fifteen—the spike having two side 
branches—and we paused for a short study in Mendelian “ Dominance," i 
and remarked that it would be interesting if Mr. White could show 
what the “ F, 1” generation would be like. Passing Dendrobium rhodo- ie 
stoma and what we took to be D. Williamsoni, in flower, we entered I 
another house, to find a beautiful example of the rare and striking Bulbo- 
phyllum Ericssoni bearing an umbel of eight blooms, radiating like the : 
spokes of a wheel, with the eight dorsal sepals piled up in a pyramid in the 
centre—a truly remarkable plant, which, by the way, is depicted in the ; 
Current issue of the Botanical M agazine (t. 8088). Here the Cattleya grouP 
was well represented, with good examples of C. Harrisoniana, C. X ™ Ge “I 
Selfridge (superba X Aclandiz), C. x Atalanta, one having a spike of seven : 
fine flowers, C. x Iris, C. X Claudian, and Lelio-cattleya purpurato- 4 
Schilleriana, with a nice batch of Cypripedium niyeum and C. concolor. ie 
Passing on to another house we found numerous interesting things ™ _ 
flower, those noted including the brilliant Renanthera Imschootiana, ie 
rare Grobya Amherstiz, Dendrobium nutans, Cochlioda rosea, 4 
Scandens, Aspasia lunata, Trichopilia laxa, Maxillaria Hubschii and, 
