164 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
apparently making its first bulb, but was exceedingly healthy and strong. 
It did remarkably well in 1897 (the small pot being plunged in moss), and 
completed a good round bulb and a long leaf, about 3 inches long. It is 
now engaged, in 1898, in making a splendid growth, that gives promise of 
a much speedier development to the flowering stage than is often given. 
Encouraged by this success, I recently acquired several more nice Cattleya or 
Lelio-cattleya seedlings, all growing remarkably well. They include one 
of Cattleya gigas X C. aurea, C. gigas X L. prestans, Lelia x Schilleriana 
x L. cinnabarina, C. Percivaliana xX L. anceps, and others. These 
seedlings are at present on a shelf near the glass. 
Seedlings seem occasionally to come in the material round imported 
plants. I found two such with Cypripedium insigne montanum, bought as 
an imported plant in a dry state, and though quite small, with the longest 
leaf measuring less than 1 inch, one has survived, and two more seedlings 
have sprung up from the base of the same plant. I see also a seedling each 
at the base of plants of C. villosum and C. Spicerianum. There are quite a 
dozen seedlings (some mere globules, others with little bulbs and leaves) at 
the base of an Odontoglossum bictoniense recently purchased from the 
Woodall collection offered by Messrs. Charlesworth. It is possible, of 
course, that these may be the result of some sowing on the pot, but I think 
this improbable. They look as if they would become ultimately Odonto- 
glossum bictoniense. | 
During the summer of 1897 I took the opportunity of again putting cool 
Orchids in a frame outdoors, the same tray, half filled with water, being 
used as a basis for the inverted pots. The frame was placed near the Cool 
house on the north side, and was sheltered by it, but I do not think it was 
quite a light enough position at all times, as it only got the sun towards the 
end of the day. I scarcely troubled to shade it at all under these 
circumstances, and it was almost constantly open on one side or the other. 
The water under the pots seems largely to counteract the effects of any 
dryness in the air or too strong sun, and the plants seem to become quite 
hardened. Two plants that showed the most marked improvement when 
put out were Miltonia vexillaria and Odontoglossum Harryanum, both 
flowering beautifully soon after. The last-named seems most powerfully 
scented, but I have never seen this commented on. My plant was once a 
poor undeveloped thing, thrown in as an extra, but has improved vastly, 
and this summer outing is evidently the receipt for this. 
_ I put out also a Lycaste aromatica, which showed a great tendency to 
make large brown blotches on the leaves, and to be going wrong after 
flowering. After I had cut the diseased parts of the leaf away and had put 
- the plant in the frame, this bad tendency was entirely checked. Apparently 
all the plant wanted was fresh air. My Masdevallias were, some of them, 
