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productions. It once occurred to me to give a detailed list of all the raisers, 
but second thoughts convinced me that this was quite unnecessary with the 
Orchid Stud-Book to hand, and in anticipation of future supplements with 
careful records, but I would like to pay a tribute to Wilson Potter, Esq. 
(and his erstwhile gardener, Mr. W. H. Young), whose collection was dis- 
persed a year or two ago. Mr. Potter was keenly interested in this section, 
and spent some ten years at Elmwood, Park Road, Croydon, persevering 
with Sophronitis seedlings, and at his sale a good number were scattered: 
among different collections. S. grandiflora x C. X Whiteleyz and S. g. 
x C. Percivaliana were two of the best, and they will be both new and, I 
prophesy, very fine. 
We may safely leave the results to speak for those who are still actively 
engaged in the work. 
(To be concluded.) 
THE LYTHAM HALL COLLECTION. 
RaRELy has it been our pleasure to visit a collection of Orchids that has 
come so rapidly to the fore as this extremely interesting one, situated on the 
Lancashire coast and formed by the intrepid traveller and explorer, J. Talbot 
Clifton, Esq. Most ofthe Orchid collections round Manchester, and the other 
busy manufacturing centres of Lancashire, are well known to the majority of 
enthusiasts in this country, either from personal visits or through the 
medium of gardening literature. These may be termed “ speciality ” 
collections, the owners generally confining their tastes and pockets to one 
or two of the popular genera, such as Cypripedium, Odontoglossum and the 
Cattleya family. 
At Lytham Hall one’s attention is drawn to the fact that the owner 
enjoys a very catholic taste, for the less showy and often diminutive and 
insignificant kinds receive quite as much attention and appreciation as the 
more stately species. And an enthusiast may here linger over and admire 
—providing he remembered to bring his pocket microscope with him— 
many of the intensely beautiful little gems of the Orchid world. 
Mr. Clifton is a gentleman of widely-travelled experience in almost every 
corner of the civilised world, and has hunted big game in Russia, Siberia 
and the Rockies. He lived six months with Esquimaux in order to secure a 
specimen of the extremely rare Musk Ox (Ovis Cliftonii), which he very 
generously and patriotically presented to the British Museum, and is known 
now as “‘ Clifton’s Big Horn,” from the valley of the Lena. And many 
other splendid trophies he has brought and added to a very interesting 
private museum at Lytham Hall. In his wanderings in Manchuria he 
kindly undertook the duties of war correspondent to one of the London 
