104 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The next house contains a miscellaneous collection, including Ccelogyne 
tomentosa with 50 bulbs; three enormous plants of C. Massangeana, the 
largest with 120 bulbs; C, pandurata; several C. Dayana; a batch of 
Miltonia Roezlii, and numerous plants of Cypripedium Victoria-Mariz and 
C. exul. It is interesting to note that the latter species, as well as C. 
bellatulum and C. x Arthurianum, have all been crossed with the beautiful 
yellow C. insigne Sandere. 
The Laelia house contains a fine batch of L. purpurata and other 
species, also the natural hybrids Lelio-cattleya x elegans and L.-c. X 
Schilleriana, and a large batch of Cattleya Lawrenceana, in robust health. 
Cypripedium niveum and ‘its allies, C. concolor, bellatulum, and Godefroyze 
are grown in quantity onthe shelves, in a compost composed of broken lime- 
stone and fibrous peat, in which they evidently luxuriate. There are 
also three very large plants of Selenipedium x calurum in No 1 pots. 
In the Lycaste house may be seen a large batch of L. Skinneri, in- 
cluding eight plants of L. S. alba, together with various other species; 
Bifrenaria Harrisonie and Epidendrum vitellinum; while suspended from 
the roof is a very large plant of Ccelogyne cristata alba, on a raft three feet 
square. 
The next house contains Cypripedium barbatum and its allies which 
like more heat; also C. Sanderianum, some plants of C. exul, and C 
Rothschildianum, with 10 to 14. growths, six of them showing flower. 
One plant shows the somewhat curious phenomenon of having the lower- 
most bracts coloured precisely like the sepals. Among plants of C. Stonei 
was a fine one with 30 growths; also a large Selenipedium caudatum, and 
various kinds of Phalznopsis. cee : 
The Dendrobium house contains a variety of the leading kinds, D. nobile 
and some of the hybrids from it being in flower and bud. A good plant 
of D. nobile Cooksoni with 36 bulbs and 20 flowers is very effective, also 
D. n. Sanderianum and D. x Ainsworthii, D. Farmeri with 60 bulbs, 
D. densiflorum with 70 to 80, and the chaste D. Dearei with 30, are also 
noteworthy. 
The Cymbidium house contains large specimens of C. Lowianum and 
its yellow variety concolor, C. grandiflorum, and several plants of C. 
eburneum, coming into flower. Suspended from the roof are some large 
specimens of Masdevallia Chimera and its varieties, also M. bella with 
250 leaves, M. leontoglossa with 100, M. gargantua with 40, also the rare 
M. Lowii. A cross has been effected between M. leontoglossa and 
Pleurothallis Roezlii which may yield some curious results. 
The two next houses are chiefly devoted to Aérides and Vanda. V. 
tricolor and V. suavis are present in variety, and several of them finely 
in flower. Some time ago the plants were very leggy and had reached 
the glass, but Mr. Chapman boldly cut them down and repotted them, with 
