358 THE ORCHID REVIEW 
CATTLEYA WARNERI ALBA.—This we have not seen, but it is mentioned 
in a note on white Cattleyas in the collection of C. G. Roebling, Esq., 
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A. (Gard. Chron., 1898, xxiv., p. 330), as being 
represented in that collection. 
(To be continued.) 
ORCHIDS AT PARKFIELD HALLOW, WORCESTER. 
A visit to this fine and well-known collection of Orchids is always 
interesting. The plants are well grown and, in addition to good culture, 
some rare and beautiful species or hybrid is always to be seen in bloom. 
On the occasion of my recent visit, a most lovely specimen of Leelio- 
cattleya X exoniensis met my view. One spike bearing five large and 
handsome flowers was still left on it, but it had had six spikes, carrying, 
between them, twenty-five such blooms. Such large, healthy specimen 
plants of this beautiful hybrid are rarely to be seen. I noted, also, grand 
plants, in robust health, of L.-c. x Pallas, L.-c. X Nysa superba, L.-c. 
X Statteriana, L.-c. x Canhamiana, L.-c. x Hippolyta, Cattleya x 
Hardyana and C. x H. Massaiana, Lelia X Latona, L. x flammea, and a 
many others. Among the species there are likewise many grand specimen 
plants in the pink of condition. Imagine a Cattleya Skinneri large enough 
to carry 145 flowers; a C. Bowringiana lilacina, with 21 spikes of bloom; 
a Maxillaria grandiflora, with 70 or 80 flowers, and it will give some 
idea of their enormous size. Miltonia vexillaria and M. Roezlii are also 
grown to a large size, whilst, a little further on, fine specimens of 
Cymbidium Lowianum are to be seen, also one magnificent plant of C. 
Traceyanum having five strong leads. 
This collection is also very rich in Lelia anceps varieties, enormous 
specimens of L. a. Schroederiana, L. a. Sanderiana, and L. a. Percivaliana, 
were noted producing many flower spikes. Also a most lovely variety, 
resembling very closely, if not completely, the rare L. a. Schroederz, was in 
bloom. Then come the Vanda teres and V. Hookeriana, and of these a 
special word must be said, though no words of mine can convey a true 
impression of what these plants are really like. They occupy the entire end 
ofa large, high, span-roofed house, and present a truly forest-like appearance. 
They are grown in pots, perhaps about fifty plants in a 12-inch pot, 
supported by teak-wood rafts fixed in the centre. From the stage on which 
they stand they grow simply like weeds, towering upwards 10 or 12 feet 
high, until the roof glass is reached, when of course it is necessary to lower 
them by cutting them down and re-planting. Even the tallest of these 
plants are still furnished with green, healthy foliage right down to the 
bottom of their stems. It is a grand sight, especially when they are in 
