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them both. One has flowered twice since (in 1896 and 1897), though its 
bulbs are smaller, and the other has hitherto declined to flower. Possibly, 
the original plant supplied was made up, and there are two plants of - 
different constitution. 
_ In one of these pots of Lycaste aromatica, a small plant appeared in 
1894, which I first took to be a weed, but ultimately it made a very small 
bulb and seemed a diminutive L. aromatica. I found on examination that 
it was in no way connected with the plant in whose pot it was 
growing, which favours the supposition that it was a seedling from seed 
introduced with the material round the plant, but it has been suggested that 
it may have sprung from some hidden eye (the old bulb in connection with 
the main rhizome having rotted away). 1 may mention that I have since 
had a small bulb form on the fop of an old bulb of Lycaste aromatica that 
had been accidentally divided, the growth starting from the point whence - 
the leaves had formerly sprung. Whatever may have been the origin of the 
proposed seedling, it has made great progress, trebling its bulb each year, 
and I expect it in a year or two to be big enough to bloom. 
Returning to the frost of January 5th, 1894, it was noticeable that one 
of the two Odontoglossum crispums, apparently the most delicate and least 
established, and which happened to be suspended, appeared perfectly 
unharmed, and made a very good growth during the following summer. It 
has since proved to be a very pretty spotted variety, and is still in good 
health. The other, which was going off flower and was placed on the bed 
near the peach tree, lost some leaves, and made, later in the year, a growth 
from a back bulb which it failed to complete. In 1895 and 1896, it also 
made poor and undeveloped growths, but made a fine bulb in 1897, though 
without flowering. It has thus taken over three years to pull round. The 
apparent difference in hardiness between the two O. crispum may possibly 
be explained by the compost of one having been wet, and that of the other 
rather dry, and by the fact that the injured one may have been somewhat 
exhausted by flowering ; or it is possible that it originated from a district of 
lower elevation. 
No harm of any kind was perceptible in the two Odontoglossum Rossii, 
one of the Masdevallia Harryana, the Ccelogyne cristata, or the Cypri- 
pedium insigne. The two O. Rossii both bloomed splendidly soon 
afterwards, and all five plants are still in my possession, either as single 
plants, or as represented by divisions from them. 
The same frost which thus killed or seriously damaged a few Orchids 
killed all the Salvia splendens and some Fuchsias and common Pelargoniums 
in the greenhouse. The temperature about mid-day marked 20° outside our 
dining-room window. 
Almost immediately after this frost, I had to go to London, leaving my 
