THE ORCHID REVIEW. 295 
Odontoglossums, newly imported Lelias, and other allied plants. | 
We now arrived among the Cattleyas, the first house containing a fine 
lot of C. Loddigesii in flower, some good C. Gaskelliana, the variable C. 
Eldorado, C. Mendelii, Lzlia crispa, Cycnoches chlorochilon, the handsome 
Oncidium Lanceanum, Papilio, and Kramerianum, Coelogyne Massangeana, 
and others not noted. In the next three Cattleya houses we observed in 
flower a fine lot of C. Gaskelliana, a most useful plant at this season, and 
many C, Eldorado; also Mormodes pardinum and its clear yellow variety 
unicolor. Passing into the next we observed a very fine Cattleya bicolor, 
the beautiful C. Gaskelliana alba, C. Loddigesii with five-flowered spike, C. 
Leopoldi (which came home among C. granulosa), Lelio-cattleya X 
amanda, the interesting Brasso-cattleya X Lindleyana well in flower, many 
Oncidium Papilio, and several Odontoglossum Krameri. Here Mr. Low 
pointed out. some good plants of Cymbidium Tracyanum producing upright 
roots, which is one of the characters by which it may be recognised. In 
an adjoining house we noticed a number of Cattleya seed pods. 
We now came to two more Cypripedium houses, one chiefly devoted to 
C. Lawrenceanum, and the other containing a miscellaneous collection, 
among which many flowers of C. Curtisii, Charlesworthii, and tonsum were 
observed. Here also were many Vanda ccerulea, a stray flower of 
Angrecum sesquipedale, and a good Angrecum articulatum. 
Some of the houses were barely finished, and the plants have hardly had 
time to settle down in their new quarters, but there was much of interest to 
be seen in flower. The arrangements for heating, ventilation, and other 
matters have been well carried out, and the establishment promises to 
become more interesting than ever. 
ORCHIDS AT ST. ALBANS. 
At all seasons of the year there are many features of interest to be found 
in the extensive establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., at St. Albans, 
both among the imported plants and the collection of hybrid seedlings, 
wbich every year become more numerous. The following notes were taken 
in the early part of September, and, it should be explained, are given in 
the order in which we visited the different houses. 
On entering our attention was immediately attracted by a fine plant of 
Cattleya Leopoldi, bearing a scape of seven very large flowers, and near 
by were examples of C. velutina, Harrisoniana, Warscewiczii, and the 
handsome Calanthe Sanderiana, an African species bearing some 
resemblance to C. Masuca. We were now among the seedlings, a most 
interesting lot, which require several houses for their accommodation, and 
