JULY, 1909.1] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 205 
saw a remarkably fine specimen of Dendrobium Victoria-Regina, in a 
10-inch pan, with numerous stems, some of them exceeding a foot long and 
bearing a profusion of beautiful violet-blue flowers, forming quite a picture. 
A position fairly near the glass in the Cool house is clearly the one in which 
to grow this beautiful species. We also examined the contents of a 
capsule of Cochlioda Neetzliana crossed with Oncidium crispum, which had 
just been cut, and found a profusion of plump seeds, which it is hoped can 
be successfully germinated, as the cross is a remarkable one. 
In an adjacent house we saw several well-bloomed plants of Sophronitis 
grandiflora, a nice lot of Odontoglossum Rossii, O. Cervantesii and the very 
distinct variety decorum, a pretty form of O. crispum with rosy spots, and 
two plants of O. c. Black Prince, a variety having unusually dark spots. It 
has been in the collection for eight years. We noted also a nice lot of 
seedlings, including some from O. Uroskinneri crossed with a good O. 
crispum. O. X Rolfeze x Pescatorei was a very prettily spotted flower with 
a white ground. 
Passing through another house, containing a lot of Dendrobiums, &c., 
with Epidendrum radicans, and several good E. x Boundii in bloom, we 
came to the Cattleya house, where we saw a nice lot of C. Schroedere in 
bloom, with C. Skinneri and the handsome C. X Lawre-Mossiz, some good 
C. Mendelii and C. Lawrenceana, with a very handsome C. xX Jupiter 
(Lawrenceana X Warscewiczii), having large, richly-coloured flowers, with 
two yellow, eye-like blotches in the throat, the handsome Leliocattleya 
Wellsiana, and other good things. Seed pods on Cattleya x Iris and others 
were noticed. 
Another Odontoglossum house contained a profusion of flowers, including 
a lot of well-grown O. Pescatorei and many examples of O. crispum, one of 
which bore a fine spike of nineteen flowers, O. c. xanthotes with twelve 
flowers, and various other varieties which we did not note. There were 
also some good examples of O. Hallii, O. triumphans and O. Kegeljani, 
several pretty O. X Adriane, O. X ardentissimum, a very rosy O. citrosmum, 
a beautiful form of O. X Lambeauianum, with rich colourand markings, and 
various others—in fact this house was quite gay with bloom. 
A Cypripedium house contained a lot of choice varieties, the majority 
out of flower at this season, but we noted the handsome C. Mastersianum, a 
richly coloured hybrid between C. X Gowerianum and C. ciliolare, and 
various well-known kinds, C. callosum Sandere, C. Lawrenceanum 
Hyeanum, with a number of C. niveum and C. bellatulum suspended from 
the roof. We noted also a nice lot of seedlings, good plants of Miltonia 
vexillaria and M. x Bleuana, Cymbidium insigne and C. Lowianum, 
Phalznopsis amabilis Rimestadiana, and various other good things. 
Mr. Ashworth is an enthusiastic Orchidist, and the collection generally 
