40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, 1908, 
of two or three hundred as we enter this house, but they are, 
for the most part, a considerable way off flowering size, being 
mostly seedling growths. They include Oncidium  crispum xX 
Cochlioda Noetzliana, Odontoglossum loochristiense x O. crispum 
Rossendale, the last crossed with O. Adrianz Cobbianum, O. Uro-Skinneri 
x Cochlioda Noetzliana, the last crossed with O. hastilabium, &c. The 
Odontoglossums are in excellent condition, and the quality of the flowered 
varieties is high, as they have been seriously weeded out as flowering seasons 
have come and gone. There are at present a matter of 500 to 1,000 
established pieces still to prove. O. c. Rossendale, the distinct and 
renowned Lady Jane, and a large number of other well known blotched 
varieties of crispum are included in this collection. There is here a 
remarkable specimen of Odontoglossum coronarium growing on a raft. It 
has twenty-five to thirty bulbs, all leaved, with seven leads, one of which is 
throwing up aspike. The raft is standing upright, and the last made bulbs 
are quite abnormal in size. This is evidently the way to grow this plant, 
instead of suspending it prostrate in a basket. O.citrosmum roseum is carry- 
ing a pod, the pollen parent being Cochlioda Noetzliana. The rare Oncidium 
Sanderianum, which has never yet flowered in this country, grows well here, 
making spikes as large as O. macranthum, but all the buds turn to leaves. 
In the next house, a three-quarter span with south-west aspect, a large 
variety of things are grown. Bulbophyllum barbigerum, the rare B. anceps 
and B. Lobbii are all doing well. Two plants of Vanda Sanderiana, which 
is considered a difficult plant to keep in good health, flower here every yea: 
Several plants of Coelogyne pandurata have be 
i en propagated from one small 
piece. 
A batch of seedlings of peculiar interest is Diacrum bicornutum 
crossed with a white Cattleya Mendélii. 
, Epidendrum  atro 
nceps waddonensis, L. flava, and 
As the pollen parent the Sophronitis has 
C. bicolor, C leya Percivaliana, C. Leopoldi, C. Aclandi&; 
. bicolor, &. aurea, Leelia Jongheana, L, prestans, Lzlio-cattleya 
bletchleyensis, and L.-c. elegans. Many of these are still onic and few in 
number. A secondary hybrid, Cattleya Harrisoniana x Sophrocattleya 
heatonensis, should yield some fine things of good oo a ies 
been successfully used with Catt 
M. B. 
