THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. XVI.] SEPTEMBER, 1908. fNo. 189. 
ORCHIDS AT GLEBELANDS, SOUTH WOODFORD. 
Juty is probably the very worst month in the year to visit a collection of 
Orchids, if one hopes to see a lot of them in flower, and I was not in 
ignorance of this fact when I set out to see the collection of J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq., and therefore suffered on that score no disappointment; and, 
indeed, there was a considerable sprinkling of flowers throughout the 
houses. 
This collection is too well known to require any introduction, as the 
annals of the R. H. S. meetings are rich in evidence of the prominent place 
it has long occupied among Orchid collections, and as these annals, as far 
as they relate to Orchids, have been carefully recorded in these pages, the 
name has been kept before the readers of the Orchid Review for a good 
number of years. 
Mr. Fowler has gathered together here an exceptionally choice lot of 
Orchids, both species and hybrids ; in fact, one might safely say that the latest 
and best of the products of the hybridist are continually being added, 
so that the collection is of an up-to-date character, which is quite 
refreshing to visit. This collection is well in the movement, and there 
seems no danger of its languishing from too strict an adherence to old 
- traditions. 
The Odontoglossums, which are an important part of the collection, are 
contained in a commodious new house, built a year or two ago. No pains 
have been spared to make this house as complete as possible. It measures 
some seventy feet long by twenty feet wide, and is twelve feet from apex to 
floor level, and has side and centre staging, the latter being graduated so 
that the plants stand an equal distance from the light. Gearing has been 
fitted to the top and bottom ventilators, which can thus be opened and shut 
expeditiously ; lead piping, perforated underneath, runs along the back and 
front walls, which facilitates damping operations and ensures an abundance 
of moisture during the summer, which it would be difficult to obtain in the 
ordinary way, and this with a minimum amount of labour. The lath staging 
is built of teak wood. The fine, general healthy appearance, the increas- 
ingly progressive size of the bulbs, and the thickness and width of the 
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