THE ORCHID REVIEW. 323 
THE ORCHID COLLECTION OF C. G. ROEBLING, 
ESQ., TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. 
THIs collection is one of the finest in the United States. It is situated at 
Trenton, New Jersey, about thirty miles from Philadelphia, and is under the 
fostering care of Mr. H. T. Clinkaberry, a skilled and successful cultivator. 
The Orchid range consists of five houses of various dimensions, mostly 
new. 
The first we entered during a visit this autumn comprised principally 
Odontoglossums and Masdevallias, embracing most of the leading varieties, 
in excellent condition. Excepting a fine plant of Miltonia vexillaria superba 
and a few of Odontoglossum crispum, there was very little yet in bloom, 
though many were finishing fine pseudobulbs and showing strong for flower, 
notwithstanding the severe hot season they had just passed through. A fine 
lot of Lelia harpophylla were finishing.up very strong growths under the 
cool treatment, and the tiny L. monophylla seemed quite at home here. 
The house is a model one, built specially for Odontoglossums. It is a 
brick structure, partly sunk in the ground, and is a lean-to with northern 
aspect, a high brick wall along the south side, aided by canvas shades raised 
above the glass, serving to protect the plants from excessive summer heat. 
On entering the next department the first thing to call our attention was 
a well-flowered plant of Epidendrum Godseffanum, with branched panicles 
five feet long carrying in all nearly ninety fully expanded, sweet-scented 
flowers, with dusky green sepals and petals, and a blue-purple striated white 
lip. This house is used for Dendrobiums, Zygopetalums, and Cymbidiums. 
Of the latter we noticed fine specimens of C. eburneum, C. Lowianum, four 
feet through, C. L. Mandaianum, two specimens, C. Devonianum, nearly 
two feet through, and many others, in excellent condition. Zygopetalum 
Mackayi was in fine flower, a large healthy specimen of Ccelogyne Dayana 
grandis was maturing its long slender pseudobulbs, and quantities of 
Dendrobiums were finishing up good canes on every side. Among the fine 
specimens and rare varieties were noted the following :—D. Dalhousianum, 
D. Falconeri giganteum, D. Farmeri, D. Griffithianum Guibertii, D. 
Richardii, D. ochreatum (Cambridgeanum), D. x Roeblingianum (Ruckeri - 
x nobile), D. x Schneiderianum (Findlayanum Xx aureum) with growths 
of over a foot long, D. suavissimum, D. Huttonii, D. x splendidissimum 
grandiflorum, D. nobile Cooksoni, D. veratrifolium, D. Wardianum album, 
with growths over two feet long, &c. 
Adjoining this is another cooler house well stocked with finely grown 
Lycastes, Dendrobium Wardianum, ripening up canes between three and 
four feet long, and a superb collection of Lelia autumnalis and L. anceps 
varieties. Among the latter were quantities of varieties alba (true), Daw- 
soni, Hilliana, Percivaliana, Sanderiana in quantity, Schroederiana, and 
