346 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NOVEMBER, 1903- 
ORCHIDS AT CHELSEA. 
WE have recently had the pleasure of inspecting the establishment of 
Messrs. William Bull & Sons, at Chelsea, where for some time increased 
attention has been paid to hybridising Orchids, particularly the Cattleya 
and Cypripedium groups, and we were particularly pleased to see a number 
of seedling Odontoglossums, which furnishes another proof that this charm- 
ing genus is not so intractable as was formerly supposed, if the hybridist 
only goes the right way to work. A number of interesting Orchids were 
also observed in flower, and it will be convenient to mention the different 
subjects in the order of our notes. 
On entering the first house we found two good examples of the pretty 
. Cattleya x Portia in flower, together with Lelia x Pacavia, and a nice lot 
of L. pumila, including some very good forms. Miltonia vexillaria Leopoldi 
is a very handsome variety, of which two good plants were in flower. The 
rare and beautiful Angraecum citratum was also noted, together with 
Coelogyne Massangeana and Oncidium Kramerianum. Here also Paphio- 
pedilums were in force, and among the species we noted afew good plants of 
P. purpuratum, and P. tonsum, the beautiful P. insigne Sander, P. virens 
P. superbiens, P. Argus, and the brilliant P. Charlesworthii. Among the 
hybrids were a nice batch of the graceful P. x Arthurianum, two good P. X 
Crossianum, a fine P. x Charles Canham, a pretty hybrid from P. exul and 
P. Chamberlainianum, P. x Swanianum, a fine hybrid from P. Curtisii, and 
several others. 
In another house was a nice batch of Cattleya labiata and C. Bow- 
ringiana in flower, several of the former being very good, the handsome 
Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana, a fine Zygopetalum maxillare with four 
racemes, and Lelio-cattleya * Schilleriana. There were were also two 
pods of Brassavola Digbyana, containing hybrid seed. 
In a third house we observed several good plants of Miltonia Roezlii in 
flower, mostly the variety alba, a batch of the charming little Habenaria 
carnea, Dendrobium Victoria-Regina, a nice lot of D. formosum, Cattleya 
Xx Parthenia, three good C. Dowiana, several Phalznopsis Esmeralda, and 
a nice batch of Ancectochili. 
We now came to the seedling house, where we found a fine series of 
young seedling Cattleyas, Lzlias, and Cypripedes, running into thousands 
in the aggregate, and including many choice crosses, some of which will be 
heard of later on. Some good plants of Paphiopedilum x Io grande X 
niveum are considered very promising. Close by was a new Odonto- 
glossum house in course of erection, embodying the latest improvements. 
Passing into another house we noticed a nice batch of Odontoglossum 
grande in flower, together with O. bictoniense, O. tripudians, O. Pescatorei, 
