124 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1903. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
‘Tur beautiful Dendrobium nobile is now making a brave show, and is 
remarkably variable. Flowers of nine different forms are sent from the 
collection of W. C. Walker, Esq., Percy Lodge, Winchmore Hill, by Mr: 
Cragg, who remarks that they are from a batch of about forty plants 
received from Burma direct, and that scarcely any two of them are alike, 
the variation also extending to the growth to some extent. We have 
repeatedly noticed this variation among importations of D. nobile, and it 
affords opportunities for the selection of distinct varieties, a good many of 
which have now been named. All the forms sent are beautiful, but there 
are two which are specially worth taking care of. 
A very fine three-flowered inflorescence of Dendrobium Brymerianum is 
sent from the collection of A. E. Wilson Browne, Esq., of Sutton Cold- 
field. It isfrom a fine plant, believed to be from twenty to thirty years old, 
and now bearing upwards of one hundred flowers. Such a plant, with its 
remarkably fringed lip, would be worth seeing. It is said that last year the 
flowers were deeper in colour and less fragrant, but the cause of difference 
is not known. 
Some beautiful Dendrobiums are sent from the collection of E. P. 
Collett, Esq., New Croft, Hale, Cheshire. There are three forms of D. 
Wardianum, one measuring four inches across, and another having very 
dark tips to the segments, while the third is represented by an inflorescence 
of four beautiful flowers. The other is a good form of D. primulinum with 
very deep rose-coloured sepals and petals. 
Three very beautiful Lzlio-cattleyas are sent from the collection of J. 
Leemann, Esq., West Bank House, Heaton Mersey, by Mr. Edge. They 
are, L.-c. X Charlesworthii (L. cinnabarina @ X C. Dowiana aurea $), 
a fine thing with rich orange sepals and petals, and a very undulate rosy 
crimson lip, prettily veined with yellow; L.-c. x Charlesworthii var. 
princeps, a large and handsome form, having the sepals and petals of a 
deep yellow shade ; anda charming form of L.-c. x Lucia (L. cinnabarina 
x C. Mendelii), in which the flowers are entirely bright yellow, with the 
exception of the front of the lip, which is of the richest purple-crimson, the 
throat being yellow. The two former came from Messrs. Charlesworth & 
Co., and the difference between them is remarkable, considering that both 
came out of the same seed-pod. The latter is from a batch of seedlings 
raised by Messrs. Sander & Sons. Flowers of the handsome Dendrobium 
x Venus grandiflorum are also sent, which measure five inches from tip to 
tip ofthe petals, and the expanded lip is 14 inches broad. Mr. Edge 
remarks that the plant has twelve stems, of 34 to 4 feet long, and well 
flowered. It is a magnificent hybrid, and well named in every respect. 
