JULY 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 203 
in the raising of which Mr. Dalgleish, Mr. Warburton’s excellent gardener, 
is very successful. 
The Odontoglossums are a magnificent lot, clean, sturdy plants, with 
large bulbs and leaves perfect to the tips, while the forest of strong spikes 
which were pushing up promised a brilliant display of flowers in the course 
of a few weeks. A good many plants were already in bloom, particularly 
‘in one long house, where some good O. Pescatorei, O. triumphans, the ever: 
popular O. crispum, O. X Adriane, and various other hybrids were 
forming a good display. A plant of the beautiful deep yellow O. 
luteopurpureum Vuylstekeanum carried two strong spikes with twelve 
flowers each, and contrasted effectively with some good examples of the 
type. It was very interesting to see the original plant of O. X ardentis- 
simum in bloom, and the flowers were said to have been out fora month. 
Some seedlings between it and O. x Adriane were also pointed out. A 
strong plant of O. crispum bore spikes of ten and eleven flowers, and the 
handsomely-blotched O. c. meleagris and O. c. moortebeekiense were finely 
in bloom, the latter having clear white ground and sharply defined 
reddish purple blotches. O. c. Queen of the North, just previously 
certificated at Manchester, bore spikes of twelve and six flowers, and a 
specially fine blush pink form was also pointed out, the plant being 
remarkably strong. O. Pescatorei album bore a very fine spike, the flowers 
being pure white with a deep yellow crest. A handsomely-blotched form of 
O. X Wilckeanum with clear white ground was also noted, with good 
forms of O. Kegeljani, O. xX harvengtense, and a very fine O. X 
Ruckerianum. Many other varieties, including excellent forms of O. 
crispum, typical and blotched, were passed over. Selection has been carried 
on here for a very long: period, while many other fine things have been 
purchased, the result being that the collection is rich in choice forms, and 
it was specially pleasing to see everything in such excellent health. 
In another Odontoglossum house we noted O. gloriosum bearing a fine 
panicle with six branches, O. cordatum, a good O. X elegantius, O. Rossii, 
O. X Andersonianum, and a lot of O. crispum in spike, witha few in flower. 
Evidence of hybridising was seen in a capsule of Odontoglossum luteopur- 
pureum X Rolfecze, while a young capsule on Sophronitis grandiflora as the 
result of crossing with Odontoglossum crispum was pointed out as a 
curiosity, though it is not expected to mature, or at least not to contain 
good seed. There were also fine examples of Oncidium Marshallianum in 
bloom, with Cochlioda sanguinea and other interesting things. 
A third small house contained a lot of seedling Odontoglossums, a few 
examples being in bud. One from O. X ardentissimum X crispum had a 
rosy blush flower just expanding, while a second in bud showed distinct 
blotching on the segments. 
