196 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JuLy, 1908. 
Even more remarkable was a batch of O. X Fascinator, obtained by 
crossing O. X Adrianz with a blotched form of O. crispum, of which a 
very large number were in flower. These included forms with the ground 
colour white, rose, and both light and dark yellow, while the spots showed 
an equally wide range of variation, in size, number, and colour, showing 
various degrees of reversion to the original species. It would seem 
incredible without positive evidence, that such diverse forms could have 
come out of the same capsule of seed. Here again some of the forms were 
very good in shape and exquisitely marked. 
Some forms of O. crispum in the same house, raised from O. c. Marie 
x O.c. Lucianii, were very good, and in some cases very highly coloured. 
There were also seedlings in almost every stage, as well as numerous 
capsules. About fourteen pots were pointed out in which the compost was 
literally covered with germinating seedlings, while on other pots on which 
similiar seeds had been sown not a seedling could be found, a difference 
apparently due to the condition of the compost or to the presence oF 
absence of suitable fungi. There were also many interesting Cochlioda 
crosses, among those pointed out being C. Neoetzliana crossed with O. X 
Lambeauianum and O.crispum Cooksonz, both of which prove to be very 
slow growers. | 
This and the next two houses each contained about two hundred different 
forms in flower, and we can only mention a few of the remainder. There 
were some handsomely blotched forms of O. xX armainvillierense, some 
good O. X loochristiense and O. X Hallio-crispum, O. x excellens, a very 
pretty rosy hybrid raised from O. crispum lilacinum x Ruckerianum, and 
O. triumphans xX polyxanthum, a very yellow hybrid. We also saw the 
handsome O. X Wilckeanum albens in bloom, which of course is a natural 
hybrid. 
The remaining houses were largely devoted to imported O. crispum and 
to the propagation of choice varieties from back bulbs, of which there were 
many interesting examples. Among the imported plants many were in 
bloom, showing the usual amount of variation. We noticed also a fine 
plant of Odontoglossum brevifolium producing a spike, and M. Peeters 
remarked that numerous crosses with that and O. crispum had been made, 
but always without result. Lastly we may mention a plant of Oncidium 
Leopoldianum, for which £20 was paid many years ago, but which still 
refuses to flower, although various methods of treatment have been tried. 
It can only be described as a bad grower, though it is hoped that it may 
ultimately gain strength enough to bloom. Only about three plants of the 
importation remain, and the one which flowered in the collection of E. 
Ashworth, Esq., proved to be the allied O. corynephorum, Lindl. 
Regarding cultural methods we may mention that M. Peeters attaches 
