160 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, also received a 
Silver Banksian Medal for a good group, including some very fine 
forms of Odontoglossum crispum, Cattleya Mendelii Morganiz and other 
good forms of the species, Vanda suavis, some good varieties of 
Trichopilia coccinea, the handsome Trichcentrum tigrinum, and other 
good things. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
Ca:LOGYNE MAsSANGEANA.—Rev. Hort. Belge, April 15, p. gt, with plate. 
CyPRIPEDIUM X F. S. Roperts.—Gard. Mag., April 16, p. 249, with 
fig. (“‘ F. S. Ames,” by error: vide l.c., April 23, p- 256). 
DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM GIGANTEUM.—Gard. Mag., February 12, p. 
377, with fig. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE ASHWORTHIANUM.—Gard. Chron., April 2, p. 
203, fig. 77. 
EULOPHIELLA PEETERSIANA.—Gard. Chron., April 2, pp. 200, 201, fig. 
76, and suppl. plate; Journ. Hort., April 21, p. 343, fig. 66. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM BARONESS SCHRODER.—Garden, April 9, p. 
297, with fig. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM PRINCESS CHRISTIAN.—Journ. Hort., March 
31, p- 277, fig. 57.—A fine form of O. X Wilckeanum with white ground. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X WILCKEANUM PITT12.—Garden, April 16, Pp. 325, 
with fig. 
PHAL£NOPSIS X JOHN SEDEN.—Garden, April 9, p- 297, with fig. ; 
Journ. Hort., April 14, p. 321, fig. 63. 
TRICHOPILIA BREVIS.—Gard. Mag., F ebruary 12, p. 102, with fig. 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
( gsmeseweun not answered here may find replies to their queries on other pages, and in 
cases, for various reasons, they have to stand over for a future issue.) 
A. W. H., Stockton. Phalenopsis Aphrodite and P. Schilleriana are usually grown 
together—indeed they occur together in a wild state—but the former is less vigorous. It is 
difficult to account for the roots going off, but we should try one or two plants with less 
materials about the roots, trusting to damping nig for the necessary moisture. P. 
amabilis (grandiflora) has rather longer and paler leav: 
J. S.S., Twickenham. A good typical Odontoglossum x Andersonianum, a natural 
hybrid between O. cripum and gloriosum. See vol. l, pp. 170-174. Oncidium sarcodes 
with spike 5 feet high, and 132 flowers is canalaty very fine. The flowers sent are very 
G.S.M. Is it not possible that too much ammonia has been used? We do rot know 
if it ever disfigures the foliage of soft-leaved Orchids, 
ey aon R. We have heard of Dendrobium seedlings germinating from seeds sent home 
on ted plants, | not cond to be hybrids, 
