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14 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE BURFORD COLLECTION. 
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THE Burford collection of Orchids is an extremely rich and varied one, | 
and one of the most thoroughly representative in existence. It contains 
a large number of the best and showiest species, varieties, and hybrids in 
cultivation, together with many rare botanical beauties and curiosities, for 
which its: owner, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., President of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, has a special predilection. There are a dozen houses" 
devoted entirely to Orchids, and the good culture everywhere observable 7 
shows the ability and intelligence which Mr. W. H. White, who succeeded — 
the late Mr. J. C. Spyers in charge of the collection, brings to bear upon 
his work. 
All the showy genera are well represented.. At the time this arti : 
was written the deciduous Calanthes were in bloom, and made a brilliant i 
display. It is interesting to note that the numerous hybrid forms now in 
cultivation have all been derived from the intercrossing of three species, 
viz., Calanthe vestita (and its varieties), C. rosea (formerly called Limatodes — 
sinks and C. labrosa, the latter extremely rare in cultivation, though 
represented here. Several handsome forms have been raised in the 
collection. C. x porphyrea, one of the most distinct of them, was obtained — 
by crossing C. labrosa with the pollen of C. vestita rubro-oculata. Of C. x — : 
sanguinaria, the darkest and richest coloured of the group, the parentage — 
has unfortunately been lost, also of C. x versicolor, a handsome form, with — 
large white flowers, and a rose-coloured eye, to which the Royal Horti- : 
cultural Society gave an Award of Merit in December, 1891. C. x Veitchil 
and its variety lactea, C. x Sedeni, C. x bella, and others are represented _ d 
by numerous examples, while the variable C. vestita Regnieri, just coming — 
into bloom, helps greatly to prolong the Calanthe season, as it continues” 1 
flowering until the end of March. 
Cypripediums are represented by most of the cultivated species and the — 
best of the hybrids, the inferior ones not being admitted to the collection — 
C. Stonei var. platytenium is the rarest and most valuable of all, a _ 
the plants in existence are all subdivisions of one original piece. But 
C. x Morganiz burfordiense, is its equal in point of beauty. The seed 
was obtained by hybridising a good form of C. superbiens with the 
pollen of C. Stonei, and was sown by the late Mr. J. C. Spyers, when — 
Orchid grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, in the month of July, 1881. The 
young seedlings did not make much progress for several years, and it was 
not until July, 1889, that the first flowers appeared. his excellent variety 
of C. Morganiz was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural © 
Society last November, when it was unanimously awarded a First-class — 
Certificate by the Orchid committee, and greatly admired by all present. 
C. Fairieanum, a rare and lovely little species, is represented here by twa 
