162 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The specimen of Ccelogyne Dayana exhibited by Baron Sir Henry 
Schréder, at the Temple Show, is probably the finest ever seen in Europe. 
On the present occasion it bore twenty-two spikes and over eight hundred 
flowers. The long pendulous spikes, each bearing nearly forty flowers, 
hung down all round the plant, and formed the most beautiful picture 
imaginable. It received the unusual award of a Silver Floral Medal and 
a First-class Certificate. Mr. Ballantine must be congratulated on his 
success with this plant. 
This was not the only magnificent specimen in the collection. The 
plant of Cattleya Skinneri was also of remarkable size, and carried sixteen 
trusses of flowers, and there were several other very fine plants exhibited in 
the same collection. 
Examples of good culture were everywhere apparent, and in several 
collections we observed large specimens in the most robust health, and 
perfectly wreathed with flowers, all of which shows the perfection to which 
modern Orchid culture has been brought. 
There remain, however, a number of difficult subjects which no one 
yet seems to have succeeded in keeping in health for long together. Some 
of the species which are now successfully cultivated in various collections 
were formerly considered just as unmanageable, and a correspondent suggests 
that notes on these intractable species would be exceedingly acceptable. 
We hope that any of our readers who have succeeded with any of these 
difficult subjects will send us a note on the mode of treatment employed. 
In some cases it may result from a difficulty in imitating the essential 
conditions under which they grow naturally, but we strongly suspect that it 
is quite as often due to ignorance of what to imitate. The success hitherto 
attained should only stimulate us to increased efforts for the future, and we 
are pleased to find a healthy appetite for more information on the subject, 
which we hope to be able to supply. 
CYCNOCHES PENTADACTYLON. 
It is interesting to record that this remarkable plant, which we figured 
at P- 73 of our March issue, has now produced a female flower. It was 
again exhibited by W. W. Mann, Esq., of Ravenswood, Bexley, at a meet- 
ing of the Royal Horticultural Society, on April 11th, with a raceme of 
—— flowers and one female. The latter was larger and far more fleshy 
= the males, light green with some brown blotches, the column short 
and stout, with the usual wings of this sex, and the lip large, ovate, and 
very fleshy, instead of being reduced to five small teeth. This orga? a 
remarkably diverse in the two Sexes. 
