THE ORCHID REVIEW. 331 
ORCHIDS AT HIGHBURY. 
AUTUMN-FLOWERING Orchids are now making a brilliant show in the 
collection of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., at Highbury, near 
Birmingham. An account of the collection generally was given at pages 
107-110 of our first volume, and we may now supplement it witha few notes 
of those which flower at this season. 
Entering one of the Cattleya houses from the long corridor, we were 
confronted with some two dozen good plants of Cattleya labiata, forming a 
most beautiful group, and showing a considerable amount of variation in the 
flowers. Several plants of C. maxima were also flowering nicely. A very 
fine form of C. X Hardyana with three-flowered inflorescence was just over. 
Lelia Perrinii was nicely in bud, also the beautiful Cattleya x Mantini 
and Leelio-cattleya x Sallieri. A fine lot of hybrids were suspended from 
the roof, and among them we observed two plants of Cattleya xX Miss 
Endicott (maxima X Loddigesii) throwing up, one having quite large buds. 
C. xX Brymeriana was just over. The rare C. X guatemalensis bore a 
good sheath, but the flowers do not push until the spring. C. X Chamber- 
lainiana has three bulbsand a number of healthy roots, but is always a very 
slow grower. Lelio-cattleya XX massiliensis, on the other hand, is 
remarkably vigorous. A seedling from Cattleya Loddigesii ? and Lelia 
pumila ¢ was nicely in flower, and must be considered a variety of L.-c. X 
Vedastii, derived from the reverse cross. A very interesting seedling derived 
from C. Harrisoniana ? and L. purpurata Russelliana 3 was throwing up 
a sheath. 
Two other houses, devoted largely to seedlings, contained many very 
interesting plants, notably a batch of nice little seedlings from Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., having Lzlia Digbyana as the pollen parent. All were 
derived from different seed-parents, among which we noted Cattleya labiata, 
Gaskelliana, Warneri, Mendelii, Mossiz, Warscewiczii, chocoensis, 
Eldorado, luteola, Lelia crispa, L. purpurata Russelliana, and others. They 
were obtained from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., of Bradford, and should 
contain some striking things when they reach the flowering stage. Some 
small seedlings from Cattleya amethystoglossa X Lawrenceana should also 
be good. The seedlings of Sobralia macrantha reported as crossed with the 
pollen of Cattleya gigas (Orchid Review, I., p. 366) are rapidly approaching 
the flowering stage, but we fail to see any trace of the Cattleya parentage in 
them. Here we also observed a fine plant of Vanda cerulea throwing up 
four strong spikes, and the dwarf Lanium Berkeleyi crowded with flower 
spikes. A curious phenomenon, which we do not remember to have noticed 
before, was a root of Saccolabium bellinum bifurcated at the apex. 
An adjacent house contained a brilliant display of flowers, including 
