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next two houses contained seedling Cattleyas and Dendrobiums, D. X 
Cassiope being in flower. We noted also batches of Phalaenopsis Luedde- 
manniana and P. Esmeralda, the latter growing very freely and flowering 
in profusion. Then came a house containing Angrecums and allied things, 
with more seedling Cattleyas. 
We ‘now entered a range of four or five houses devoted largely to 
Cattleya hybrids of flowering size, where we found many features of 
interest. Those in flower included several good forms of Lzlio-cattleya X 
Martinetii, L.-c. x bletchleyensis, and L.-c. x Henry Greenwood, also 
examples of L.-c. X Gottoiana, the curious little L.-c. x Ira (L. longipes 
Xx L.-c. X Schilleriana), L.-c. x elegans, Cattleya X calummata, C. X Mrs. 
J. W. Whiteley, C. granulosa, C. Dowiana, and C. Warscewiczii, together 
with C. Harrisoniana X Leopoldi in bud. There were also many Cattleya 
seed-pods representine crosses of great promise, and a plant of the rare 
Lelia grandiflora (majalis) alba carried a capsule obtained by crossing with 
some other albino. Lelia flava also bore capsules, and Cattleya Rex was: 
pointed out as a species which has now become extremely rare, and one 
plant of C. elongata (Alexandra) as now almost unique in cultivation. A 
plant of C. X guatemalensis var. Wichuseniana is probably part of the 
original one named by Reichenbach. Aérides Sanderianum was bearing a 
couple of good spikes, and in an adjoining house we noted a small batch of 
Vanda Hookeriana doing well, also some capsules on Cattleya citrina, and. 
Lycaste. 
The Cool houses followed, in which we noted a miscellaneous collection 
of Masdevallias, Oncidiums, Maxillarias, Lycastes, Lelia pumila, &c., 
those in flower including Miltonia spectabilis, Zygopetalum crinitum with 
two racemes, Oncidium sarcodes, O. macranthum, O. pulvinatum bearing 
numerous racemes, Odontoglossum Uroskinneri, O. bictoniense album, a 
very pale O. ramosissimum, several Cypripedium Charlesworthii, Sobralia 
x dellense, Masdevallia racemosa, M. Chestertoni, and various others. 
After passing through two houses in course of reconstruction we came 
to the one containing two plants of the remarkable Arachnanthe Lowii, 
which are said to have flowered well this year, the best having produced 
twenty-one racemes of flowers. There was also a batch of Cypripedium 
callosum, and in one case C. Appletonianum was flowering out of the same 
clump. It is said that plenty of this species comes in importations of C. 
callosum, and it is curious how closely they resemble each other in the 
vegetative character. 
There remained what is termed the Botanical collection, and before 
reaching it we noted a fine lot of Cattleya labiata, in sheath, and various 
other imported species, C. Dowiana and C. granulosa being in flower, and 
several examples of C. bicolor and C. Gaskelliana in bud ; also good batches: 
