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18 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ’ 
Hanging close to the roof-glass are half-a-dozen Odontoglossum seedling 
growing freely. They were found on a plant bought from Mr. Buchan’s 
collection at Southampton, but unfortunately their parentage is unknown, 
In the same house are several large specimen Maxillarias, as the ran 
. M. fucata (Rchb. f.), M. grandiflora, M. picta, M. lepidota, M. Hubschii, the 
distinct M. Sanderiana, and others. : 
Masdevallias are a speciality at Burford, one lean-to house, about forty 
feet long, being almost entirely devoted to them. It contains all the 
best and rarest forms obtainable, viz., M. muscosa, a very remarkable 
species, owing to its mossy peduncles and sensitive lip; M. cucullata, M 
Rolfeana, M. astuta, M. x Fraseri, M. x Gairiana, M. x splendida, ete. 
while of the M. coccinea group there are many brilliant forms. M. tovarensi 
is an extremely pretty species, its pure white flowers being valuable at this” 
season of the year, both for cutting and decorative 
purposes. Plants of th 
M. Chimera group are also extensively cultivated. 
In the Mexican house, Lelia anceps and its varieties promise to make a 
fine show, most of the white and rose-coloured varieties being represented: 4 
In the same house are fine specimens of Vanda teres and its variety alba, 
which make strong growths and bloom freely each year, producing as many 
as six to nine flowers on each spike. A large specimen of Schomburghi ' 
Lyonsii is also sending up a strong flower spike. It has never flowered it 
this collection before. A fine plant of Schomburgkia Tibicinus is also 
showing a strong flower spike. 
In one of the hottest houses stands the giant Grammatophyllum speci: 
sum, with strong stout growths, measuring upwards of six and a half fect 
length, and eight inches in circumference. Every effort has been made | 
induce this plant to flower, but hitherto without success. It flowered with 
Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, in 1851, and in the collection of W- Ge 
Farmer, Esq., of Nonsuch Park, Ewell, Surrey, in 1859. The latter plant 
had stems from nine to ten feet high, the flowe 4 
and the expanded flowers nearly six inches across, thickly spotted with rede 
brown spots on a yellow ground. | 
Another giant Orchid here is R P| 
dozen growths, from seven to eight feet long. This plant was imported 
from China in 1815. It ultimately passed into the hands of Mr. Morse, 
Epsom, who had known it for u : 
in this collection about fifteen y 
Sobralia Cattleya is another ve 
been tried 
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