324 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NOVEMBER, 1908. 
Sallieri Hyeanum xX Charlesworthii. One sturdy seedling from C. 
Germinyanum xX Alcibiades showed remarkable precocity, for though only 
sown in February, 1896, it was already producing a strong scape. 
Examples of reversion were numerous, and not always confined to 
hybrid seedlings, for eight or nine plants out of a batch of C. insigne 
Chantini Lindeni xX C. i. montanum aureum were in bloom, and all had 
green flowers with the dorsal sepal blotched. C. i. Harefield Hall var. self- 
fertilised had reverted to quite ordinary forms, but C. i. montanum aureum 
fertilised with the preceding had an enormous bud, just on the point of 
expansion, and should be fine. Several seedlings in bud of self-fertilized C. 
i. Sanderze were pointed out, one having three buds and another an 
expanded flower consisting of the petals and lateral sepals only. It had 
also a bud which appeared to be normal. All appear true to type. We 
could only note a few of the very numerous seedlings in this house, where 
we also observed plants of Zygopetalum X Roeblingianum showing for 
flower, and Zygocolax Wiganianus in bud. 
The long corridor connecting the different houses contains the evergreen 
and deciduous Dendrobiums, a batch of Vanda teres, exposed to full sun, 
Selenipediums, and various other interesting things. Here we noted two 
specimens of S. Schlimii, one with eleven spikes, half a dozen fine Cattleya 
X Mantini, and a number of Dendrobium formosum, some being in 
flower. Dendrobiums are very well grown, and we noted some enormous 
stems of D. nobile nobilius, D. x Ophir, &c. 
It was on entering the next house that a group of plants belonging to 
the old collection was pointed out, about twenty of them, most of which 
have been here for upwards of half a century. They included Vanda 
tricolor and suavis, Aérides Veitchianum and Angraecum sesquipedale, 
while another, a plant of Vanda Batemanii, was in the next house. 
Plants of the rare Oncidium Jonesianum were also pointed out, with a 
sturdy plant of Brassocattleya Alexanderi, some good Phalzenopsis, and a 
magnificent specimen of Lelio-cattleya elegans, probably the finest in 
cultivation, which this year bore 247 flowers. In bloom were two good 
L.-c. luminosa, a fine lot of Dendrobium Phalzenopsis, including the beauti- 
ful pure white variety hololeucum, Sophrocattleya Chamberlainii with three 
of its brilliant flowers, Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni, and the pretty blush- 
white Selenipedium x Cleola, while a good plant of S. x Schroedere 
candidulum, not then in bloom, was pointed out as being like the preceding 
in colour. There were a dozen plants in bloom of the beautiful Cypripedium 
X Rossetti, all good clear yellow forms, and two had tWin-flowered scapes: 
The leaves vary considerably, some being green, and others as much 
marbled as C. callosum. We noted also C. purpuratum, several C. X 
Maudiz, the handsome C. x Chapmanii superbum, with various other 
