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from the leaf-growths. A remarkable sight was a plant of C. x Hardyana 
with twelve fully expanded flowers, while C. x H. Roeblingiana, which 
surpassed it in point of beauty, was represented by a fine specimen. A 
group of C. Bowringiana presented a fine sight in its many varieties. The 
collection is rich in forms of C. Rex, C. x Hardyana, and C. Dowiana, and 
many are very striking; C. Dowiana Roeblingiana being among the best 
and most distinct, with tawny crimson sepals and petals and an intense 
maroon lip. C. Mossiz Hardyana superba, said to surpass the variety 
Massangeana; C. M. shorthillense, a rich dark form; C. Warscewiczii 
Lageriana, in which the sepals and petals are dark rose, and the usual 
yellow spots of the lip absent; C. velutina, C. Dormaniana, and numerous 
others added to the richness of the display. 
Suspended in small baskets were a fine lot of Lelia pumila and its 
varieties Dayana and Roeblingiana, this latter very fine and rich, the bright 
rose-coloured flowers expanding five inches between tips of petals. L. 
Perrinii was also flowering well. 
The new Lelio-cattleya x Novelty var. Trentonense, a cross between 
Lelia pumila and L.-c. x elegans Turneri was very striking, also L.-c. x 
e. Greyana, with a bright orange throat, L.-c. x e. Turneri, L.-c. x 
Phcebe, a fine plant, and L.-c. xX Arnoldiana. Epidendrum myrianthum 
album, two fine plants, a group of Ccelogyne ocellata, with many dozen 
spikes of their white and yellow flowers, and Miltonias in variety were 
noticed among the myriads of good things represented. 
Part of a shelf in this house is also devoted to the cooler Cypripediums 
such as C. x Harrisianum, numerous choice varieties of C. insigne, C. 
villosum, C. Boxallii, &c., also Selenipedium x leucorrhodum, S. x 
Schroederze, and others of the S. x Sedeni group. 
The house is equipped with top and bottom ventilators, the latter in the 
shape of loopholes four inches square, through the brickwork over the pipes. 
These holes may be opened or closed at will by a lever; a very useful appli- 
ance which modifies the heat leaving the pipes, ensures a good circulation, 
and thus prevents a stagnant atmosphere. Open cloth shading elevated 
above the glass is used to break the solar rays and prevent scorching. 
RosBert M. GREY. 
Orange, N.]. 
POGONIA SPECIOSA. 
A very distinct and striking Orchid has appeared in the collection of F. 
Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Safford). It is the old 
Cleistes speciosa, Gardner, a representative of a small American group 
which has been reduced to a section of Pogonia by Reichenbach. It 
appeared in a large imported clump of elie purpurata, and has now 
