16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ JANUARY, 1906. 
Minos Youngii, C. X Lathamianum, and several other good things, among 
which C. X Euryades incomparible stands out as one of the most striking, 
on account of the amount of rich purple on the dorsal sepal and the clear 
white margin and apex. C. X Acteus, C. X aureum Rogersii, and C. X 
Kitty are also very fine. Mr. Rogers, ina note, calls attention to C. 
insigne Gladys, as being the nearest approach to an albino that he knows, 
the flower being clear yellow, without either spots or brown hairs—the latter 
remark applying to some brown hairs at the base of the petals of C. i. 
Sanderianum, which it otherwise most resembles. He also mentions one 
called C. x Constance Wrigley, a cross between C. X Minos Youngii and 
C. insigne, Harefield Hall var., which in its broad segments and bold 
spotting most resembles the latter. All the flowers are large and very finely 
developed, and have evidently been cut from strong well-grown plants. 
They enable one to realise what a fine display they must have made when 
on the plants. The ravages of the fog fiend seem to be periodic, and we 
may hope that the present visitation may again prove exceptional. 
VANDA CCERULEA. 
Wirt this note I send you two photographs of some plants of Vanda 
ccerulea which have bloomed very well with me this season, and I really 
hope that we have found out the right place in which this lovely Orchid 
will flourish, make roots, and produce bloom spikes. Ever since I began to 
grow Orchids seriously I have made many attempts to grow this Orchid, 
but without success, for the plants gradually died out, although they were 
placed in various temperatures and varied situations. One of my purchases 
was made about eight or nine years ago, and this plant has existed up to the 
present year, making several attempts to bloom, but the bloom spike always 
damping off, and the plant gradually losing ground each year. Last 
autumn, however, this plant was placed along with a dozen others in a 
certain position in a house in which I grow my Cypripedium insigne and its 
hybrids. This house has a southern aspect, and its temperature, by fire 
heat, ranges from 55 degrees at night to 60 degrees by day, and this 
temperature we endeavour to keep up the year through. As you can see by 
the photographs, the plants are making roots freely and have bloomed 
splendidly, and even the nine-year old plant has turned over a new leaf and 
produced a nice spike with perfect flowers, and has made roots freely, which 
it never did before. The photographs show one plant with four spikes of 
bloom, and a selection of plants which were equally well flowered. We now 
hope we have found out the situation which this lovely Orchid likes, and 
expect to have a good showof bloom on our thirty-one plants when the time 
for flowering comes round again. 
Bridge Hall, Bury. O. O. WRIGLEY. 
