214 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
best advantage. he usual popular Orchids, such as Cattleyas, Lzelias, 
Odontoglossums, Miltonia vexillaria, Cymbidium Lowianum, and others, are 
represented in quantity, many of them by a series of good varieties, together 
with a number of less common, but equally interesting things. An enumera- 
tion would occupy far more space than we can spare, though we may 
mention a few of the rarer or more striking ones. Among Odontoglossums 
we observed the rare O. Williamsii, a handsome thing allied to O. grande, 
and valuable on account. of flowering in June; O. hastilabium, and the 
brightly-coloured O. cordatum Kienastianum. Several plants of Cochlioda 
Neetzliana with its pleasing orange-scarlet flowers were, as usual, very 
attractive, while of Oncidiums were several plants of O. Gardnerianum, the 
very curious O. unicorne, the neat little O. Harrisonianum, O. macranthum 
aureum with sepals as yellow as the petals, and the ever graceful O. 
phymatochilum, like a cloud of insects on the wing. Mr. Bull utilises 
various graceful species, not particularly noticeable as regards colour, with 
the happiest effect, and among them Brassia verrucosa and the rare B. 
Keiliana. Lelia tenebrosa was conspicuous for its rich colour, and among 
Cattleyas we noticed one very striking one called signata, whose exact 
affinity is a little doubtful, unless it be a remarkable coloured form of ‘ 
Mendelii, which should be more carefully compared. Nanodes Medusze 
bore two of its richly coloured flowers with fringed lip, and a small plant of 
Promenza xanthina was wreathed with flowers. Acanthephippium bicolor 
is not often met with, and was noticeable on account of its peculiar purple 
colour, as was Lycaste Skinneri alba so much out of season. Round a 
small fountain some interesting little plants are always arranged, and here 
we saw the Trichopilia tortilis and a variety of Masdevallias, as macrura, 
Wageneriana, infracta, Reichenbachiana, Chimera, bella and radiata. 
Mr. Bull has quite a collection of these interesting plants, for in another 
house were M. demissa, peristeria, anchorifera, ionocharis, and others, 
including the remarkable M. muscosa with mossy peduncles and a lip which 
suddenly closes on the slightest touch. Palumbina candida and Ornitho- 
cephalus grandiflorus are two interesting little Orchids, of which several 
plants were in flower. It is rather curious to note how the smaller Aérides 
and Saccolabiums have been superseded by the cool American Orchids, 
though we noted the pretty Aérides crispum, japonicum, and Houlletianum, 
Saccolabium ampullaceum and curvifolium, and the strongly aromatic Vanda 
Parishii in flower. A glance round the other houses shows the source from 
which the supplies for the Show House are drawn, where interesting things 
are coming into flower. A second house is devoted to Odontoglossums in 
flower, the effect being very graceful. Mr. Bull’s Annual Exhibition shows 
what can be done with these charming plants, and has no doubt contributed 
its share to the popularisation of Orchid culture, which has undergone such 
a marked development during recent years. 
