THE ORCHID REVIEW. 163 
ORCHIDS IN THE COLLECTION OF HENRY 
GRAVES, ESQ., ORANGE, NEW JERSEY. 
Tuts beautiful collection is located at Mr. Graves’s winter residence, in 
Orange, New Jersey, fourteen miles from New York city. The Orchid 
houses are six in number, of various lengths, and contain one of the best 
collections in the country. The Cattleya house is sixty feet long by eighteen 
feet wide, and contains many hundred plants, including over one hundred 
distinct species, hybrids, named varieties, albinos, &c. There are some 
grand specimens of Lelia purpurata, with a total of 320 blossoms at present 
expanded, including such varieties as L. p. Nelisii, Williamsii, Schreederz, 
&c.; quantities of Lelia crispa showing well for flower; a fine plant of 
Cattleya Skinneri with nearly one hundred expanded blooms ; together with 
smaller specimens of C. Warneri, Mossie, Trianz, Schroedere, Mendelii, 
intermedia, &c., in flower. These will soon be enriched by many large 
specimens of C. Gaskelliana and Warscewiczii; C. Triane is now nearly 
over, but when in flower numbered over 450 blooms at one time. Leelio- 
cattleya x elegans is represented by many fine specimens, including such 
varieties as Turneri, prasiata, and Schroeder; while L.-c. X Schilleriana 
and its variety Wolstenholmie are also represented. The collection 
embraces also smaller plants of the leading species and hybrids usually 
found in other choice collections. _ 
The entire collection is grown in red cedar baskets, in chopped Osmunda 
rhizomes, sphagnum, and charcoal. No pots are used. The plants are all 
healthy, and free from scale, thrip, &c., and are watered overhead twice a 
day, winter and summer, with the hose. A heavy coat of white lead and 
turpentine is the shading used in summer; this is entirely removed during 
winter, and the plants seem to enjoy the weak winter sun, and ripen up for 
bloom much better with its assistance. 
Adjoining the Cattleya house is a smaller one used for Phalznopsis, and 
the bigibbum section of Dendrobium. These are all suspended in baskets, 
and grown in charcoal and chopped sphagnum. In this same house are 
grown also many fine plants of Oncidium Lanceanum, in baskets of char- 
coal. The benches below are occupied by hybrid Anthuriums, and the 
plants are all syringed overhead twice a day in fine weather, and are in 
good healthy condition. A temperature of 80° by day and 70° at night is 
afforded them in summer, with ro° less during winter. 
The Cypripediums occupy a house sixty-five feet long by eighteen wide, 
and are great favourites with Mr. Graves. The collection is, without doubt, 
the best in the United States, numbering over seven hundred species, 
hybrids, and varieties. They are all grown in peat fibre, and chopped 
sphagnum, with liberal drainage. The temperature ranges in winter from 
70° to 75° by day and 60° to 65° at night, and as near that mark as possible 
