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specimen with bulbs a foot long, with very strong spikes yet in bud. 
Others in flower were the rare and distinct O. unicorne, O. flexuosum, O. 
Cebolleta, the handsome O. incurvum, and O.-ornithorrhynchum, Vanda 
Kimballiana, Odontoglossum hastilabium, Miltonia Roezlii, and 
Physosiphon Loddigesii. 
An adjoining house contained a lot of Odontoglossum crispum, a few 
being in flower, O. Lindleyanum, a batch of O. maxillare, some being in 
in bud, the handsome Oncidium pretextum, a large batch of O. concolor, 
many being in bud, good flowering examples of the remarkable O. 
dasytyle, with dark beetle-like crest, also the handsome O, spilopterum. 
Turning into the large Cattleya house, we found a good show of bloom, 
including a nice lot of C. Gaskelliana, which is extremely useful at this 
season, several good C. Warscewiczii, a nice lot of the distinct C. velutina, 
C. v. magnifica being especially large and richly coloured. The two 
species, however, which made the best show, were C. Loddigesii and the 
allied C. Harrisoniana, many of which were flowering very freely. As these 
two species have been somewhat confused, it was interesting to compare the 
series together. Every plant of C. Harrisoniana had a deep yellow 
corrugated crest, and narrower darker petals, while C. Loddigesii had a 
paler smooth lip, and lighter sepals and petals. Some forms of this open 
nearly white at first, gradually becoming darker, and a few are spotted. It 
has also more flowers on the raceme, up to as many as nine, while the 
greatest number of C. Harrisoniana seen was four. Mr. Ashton states that 
they import them from quite different localities, and that the names 
are sometimes transposed in the trade. A fine plant of Acineta Barkeri 
was suspended in this house, the racemes not yet expanded. A batch 
of Lelia autumnalis was also showing well for flower. 
We next inspected the smaller houses, which formed the original 
nursery. The first was chiefly devoted to Cattleyas and Cypripediums, and 
here we noted many pods on the former genus, affording evidence of the 
experiments in hybridisation which are carried on. Among the seedlings, 
we observed healthy plants raised from a cross between Cattleya Rex 
and C. bicolor. Among plants in flower, were the fragrant C. Eldorado, 
Oncidium Papilio and Lanceanum, Cypripedium Victoria-Mariz, C X Io., 
C xX picturatum, some good C X cenanthum, including one with a twin- 
flowered scape, and several Selenipediums. 
The next house was devoted to a batch of imported Cattleya labiata, 
and an adjoining Warm house contained a good batch of Dendrobium 
Phalzenopsis, just commencing to flower. Here also were many Cattleya 
Loddigesii, both in flower and in bud, also Mormodes pardinum, and its 
variety unicolor. A small Phalenopsis house contained a number of 
healthy plants, which are stood over saucers of water on a central pillar on 
