256 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {[AucusT, 1908. 
OrcHIDs AT WISLEY.—It is interesting to note that Orchids now receive 
ome attention at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley. 
In the Prospectus of Instructions for Students we find the following item :— 
Cultivation of Orchids. The Orchid house contains a small repre- 
sentative collection of mainly intermediate and cool house Orchids. 
Watering, ventilation, ripening, dividing, repotting, &c. 
Hybridisation and raising of seedlings. 
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ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
CatrLeya X WHITEI MAGNIFICA.—Journ. Hort., 1908, ii. p. 75, with fig. 
C@LOGYNE PERAKENSIS, Rolfe.—Bot. Mag., t. 8203. 
CYNORCHIS COMPACTA.—Gard. Mag., 1908, p. 572, with fig. 
DENDROBIUM AUREUM.—Journ. Hort., 1908, ii. p. 3, with fig. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X AMABILE FOWLERIANUM.—Gard. Chron., 1908, 11. p.- 
4, fig. 4. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA CAPPEI, CHARLESWORTH’S VAR.—JFourn. Hort., 1908 
ll. p. 51, with fig. 
MASDEVALLIA TOVARENSIS (specimen plant).—Fourn. Hort., 1908, il. p- 
99, with fig. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X ILLUSTRE VAR. KiNG oF ENGLAND.—Gard. Mag., 
1908, p. 542, with fig. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM QUEEN ALEXANDRA, VAR. CRAWSHAYANUM.—Gard. 
Chron. 1908, ii. p. 42, fig. 15. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X WILCKEANUM SCHRG@DERIANUM.— Journ. Hort., 
1908, ii. p. 27, with fig. 
VANDA PUMILA.—Gard. Chron. 1908, ii. p. 43, fig. 16. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
[Orchids ave named and questions answered here as far as possible. Correspondents aré 
sai aaiie to i e native country or parentage of plants sent. An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
rte 
sent if a reply by post is sacieda (abro ly postcards should be used). Subject jal interest 
will be dealt with in the body of the we yp ule ised) ubjects of spec 
J. Bs. e Lycaste imported with se ag Skinneri is L. x Luciani, a natural hybrid 
between the species named and L. lasioglos 
FL. . two flowers clearly 2a shane an abnormal retake of Cattleya ee 
which the “growth, leaves, and bulbs gk entirely.” The fact that the plant came 
out of an tcvpartaties of the species is cine ther the prelayes is nance ent 
can only be seen when the plant becomes eatabliched; and owas again. 
aria vitellina _ aureo-fulva), Eria convallarioides (dense -flowered), Eria 
sp. near conolr and ra a not identified. 
Photographs iecvel with thanks. W. P. B. 
