-270 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1903. 
Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons, Westgate Hill, Bradford, staged a small 
‘group of Cypripediums, Masdevallias, &c., to which a Vote of Thanks was 
given. 
Messrs. John Cowan & Co., Gateacre, also staged a small group, to 
-which a Vote of Thanks was accorded. 
“THE ORCHID JUNGLE.” 
‘WE learn from a recent issue of the Indian Field that Mr. S. P. Chatterjee, 
‘the well-known Calcutta Nurseryman and Florist, is extending his business 
by establishing a branch at Mihijam, a picturesque spot a hundred and fifty 
‘miles from Calcutta, and is said to be completely eclipsing all his previous 
-efforts in the magnitude of the scheme upon which he is now busily engaged. 
The ‘Orchid Jungle” is the appropriate name selected for the 
-estate for Orchids; even the rarer imported varieties grow out-of-doors in a 
way calculated to turn green with envy the Orchid raiser in less favoured 
‘climes. It faces the main road about 100 yards from Mihijam Railway 
Station (E.I.R.), is a mile in length anda mile and a half in depth, and 
the owner is in treaty for another large slice of land which adjoins it. 
The estate is at present densely wooded, Sal, Mhowa, Sissoo predominating, 
-and the value of the timber alone is considerable. It is on undulating 
ground with a gradual descent towards the north, and one of its chief 
features is the practically inexhaustible water supply. Another is the 
extraordinary fertility of the soil, in which almost everything grows as in the 
best parts of Ceylon. The very sticks put in to support plants often them- 
selves begin tosprout! The climate is, even at this season of the year, pleas- 
-ant, and in the cold weather it is downright bracing. 
The view from one of the little hills on the estate is simply charming. 
The “‘ Orchid Jungle” lies below with its refreshing verdure all round, its 
“avenues opening up fresh vistas of beauty, its deep shady nooks, its cool 
_grots and mossy dells with mountain streamlets trickling along sandy courses 
or tumbling over moss-covered boulders into pools fringed with silver and 
other fern, and overhung with creepers growing in almost aggressive 
luxuriance. Here and there are level areas which suggest sites for fairy 
cottages; anon great mounds of rock, for the property is rich in stone; on 
some of the terraces under cultivation are rice, dall, and other grain and 
seed crops. On every side stretch the emerald rice fields terraced on the 
rising ground which away in the distance merge into the Sonthal hills, with 
Panchcote well standing out from his smaller brethren, and old Parishnath 
looming dimly in the far horizon towards Barrakur. And here and there we 
catch glimpses of the little river that winds among the valleys and further on 
runs into the Roopnarain. 
