106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1903. 
Roehrsiana. I believe they have recently flowered a C. Trianz with seven 
flowers on one spike ! 
These results are achieved without the adventitious aid of leaf-mould, 
it being unknown at the place until about twelve months ago, when Mr. 
Roehrs was persuaded to try a batch of C. labiata in this compost. At 
present there is no improvement in the growth, and Mr. Roehrs is reserving 
his opinion. 
There was a fine batch of the rare Epidendrum atropurpureum Randii 
in flower on one of my visits; fine big bulbs and spikes, with eight to 
twelve flowers on a spike. This plant is supposed to like a free open 
compost, and here they had it, nothing but black fibrous peat and lumps 
of charcoal in equal proportions, and plenty of holes in the compost, and 
the results were certainly very satisfactory. 
At the south end of a long wide corridor, or vestibule, from which the 
houses open right and left, several thousand Dendrobium Phalznopsis were 
hanging up to the roof. On the occasion of my last visit the new bulbs 
were just plumping up, and in the majority of cases had greatly exceeded 
the length of the imported bulbs, and promised to be a fine show later on. 
The method of watering was to drench them with the hose pipe as they 
hung. This was the only way of watering I ever saw on the premises, 
everything being watered through the hose pipe. 
The free flowering Cypripedes and Dendrobes are grown in great 
quantity, and Mr. Roehrs has flowered several fine yellow varieties from a 
batch of C. insigne, which find a very ready sale, and possibly we may have 
a “ Sandere’”’in the States under quite a different name ? 
A strange feature to an Englishman was that in the whole place there 
was not a hybrid Orchid, every plant belonging to a true species ; though I 
have reason to believe that the raising of hybrids will be attempted in the 
near future. Miltonia Roezlii does fairly well, but M. vexillaria is only a 
moderate success, the hot summers requiring great skill and attention to tide 
the plants safely through. About ten years ago Mr. Roehrs purchased and 
had sent over from England 2,000 Odontoglossum crispum, but they were 
a great failure, gradually dwindling away, and so after two seasons, to 
prevent them dying out altogether, he shipped them back again at about 
fivepence each, a great loss on the original outlay. Whilst on this subject, 
I may mention that I visited the collection ofa wealthy New York amateur, 
who had special below-ground pits built for his crispums, but the results 
were just the same as those of Mr. Roehrs, the plants gradually pining 
away for the cooler air of their mountain home. This is not surprising, for 
during one whole week whilst I was there the thermometer never fell below 
98° in the shade, and was often up to 104°. For this reason the Americans, 
about New York at any rate, are denied the cultivation of one of the most 
