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last year bore three. This is an Orchid now seldom met with in collections. 
Stauropsis lissochiloides, generally known as Vanda Batemanii, is also 
represented. It flowered well last year, one spike carrying over sixty 
flowers. Here, too, is the fine plant of Grammatophyllum Seegerianum 
which was exhibited last year at the Temple Show; also a large plant of 
Grammangis Ellisii, a batch of Miltonia Roezlii, Vanda teres, which flowers 
annually, Arundina bambusifolia, also a plant of Epidendrum Stamfordianum, 
showing for flower. Cypripedium x selligerum, C. x Dauthieri, and C. x 
Germinyanum were in flower, the latter a decidedly bold and striking thing. 
Calanthe x bella and C. Regnieri, also a good plant of the fine Dendrobium 
x splendidissimum, with numerous flowers, helped to brighten up the 
house. A plant of D. nobile carries a good seed-capsule, obtained by 
crossing with the pollen of D. superbum, which in time may yield good 
results, 
The Cattleya house contains most of the generally grown kinds of 
Cattleya and Lelia, including some good forms of Lelia anceps and its 
white varieties, Stella, Williamsii, and Sanderiana, just passing out of flower, 
Lelia prestans, in flower, fine plants of Lelia majalis, one of which 
received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society two 
years ago. Also some good forms of Lelio-cattleya x elegans, and L. x 
Schilleriana. Aérides Fieldingii and A. crassifolium are also grown in 
this house, together with the Sobralias, of which S. macrantha, S. 
leucoxantha, S, xantholeuca, and the rare S. Ruckeri are represented. 
In the Odontoglossum house we observed several flowering examples of 
O. gloriosum and O. Sanderianum, also a fine yellow hybrid, probably a 
form of O. x baphicanthum. Over a thousand plants of O. crispum are 
stown, besides numerous other species. A plant of Oncidium insculptum 
has a spike over twelve feet long with over seventy flower buds. 
© now come to the famed Phalenopsis house. It is a structure 
Venty-five feet long by twelve feet wide with a low span roof, and is 
Situated at the north side of a high wall, which excludes every ray of 
sunshine during the winter. It has bottom ventilators only, and water 
tanks below the stages. The paths are of gravel, which is kept forked 
loose. About three hundred and fifty plants of the different species are 
Suspended from the roof, in teak baskets, which are often small in comparison 
With the size of the plants. Many of the plants are in the most luxuriant 
alth, P, Schilleriana is grown in quantity, P. Stuartiana, P. Sanderiana, 
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P. amabilis (Blume), and P. Aphrodite are well represented. P. speciosa 
and its variety Imperatrix grow and flower vigorously. The latter, which 
has nine leaves, some over a foot long and five to six inches wide, is . 
Splendid form, and has received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horti- 
Cultura] Society. P, tetraspis and P. Boxalii are also represented, the 
latter being in flower, also the natural hybrids P. x leucorrhoda, P. x 
