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The next house contained a small batch of Cymbidium seedlings about 
two years old, about a dozen good Cypripedium Fairrieanum, showing 
variation in the amount of purple in the flower, with several good C. x 
Niobe Westonbirt var., and numerous other good things. 
Then came a house devoted largely to seedling Cattleyas and allies 
including a number of Sophronitis hybrids, which cannot be mentioned in 
detail. The beautiful Sophrolelia lata Orpetiana has given a number of 
interesting seedlings. 
We now come to the flowering houses, there being a small central lobby 
opposite to the entrance from the corridor, with a large flowering house to 
the left, while the corresponding house to the right is devoted to Cypri- 
pediums. The central lobby presented a charming sight, being devoted 
entirely to Vanda ccerulea and Oncidium varicosum Rogersii in bloom, the 
two being intermixed, and the combination of blue and bright yellow was 
most effective. There were eight plants of V. ccerulea, carrying fifteen 
spikes, while the Oncidiums were slightly more numerous. 
The flowering house to the left is forty feet long, and presented a 
gorgeous sight, being filled throughout with fine flowering specimens of the 
most diverse character, Cattleyas and Lzlio-cattleyas, however, predomin- 
ating, and most of them were raised in the collection. Cattleya x Fabia 
was a wonderful sight, over 150 flowers being open, the plants having been 
selected from a large batch of seedlings, and some of the forms were 
exceptionally fine. C. x Mantinii nobilior and C. x Mrs. J. W. Whiteley 
were represented in quantity, the latter by over fifty spikes, one plant 
having five magnificent spikes. C. x Hardyana was represented by over 
fifty flowers, including the beautiful white varieties alba and The Pearl. 
C. x Mrs. Pitt and C. x Lord Rothschild were well represented, a plant 
of the latter having eight blooms and another a most intense orange blotch 
on the lip. There were several handsome C. X_ fulvescens, and of C. 
Dowiana aurea there were about a dozen flowers. We noted also a fine 
C. x Maroni, C. Xx Wendlandiana, a plant of C. X mollis with twelve 
flowers, C. X Thayeriana, the charming albino C. X Dusseldorfii var. 
Undine, C. x Heloisiez, C. Warscewiczii, C. labiata, and others, some in 
several examples. The Lelio-cattleyas were a fine lot, and included fine 
examples of luminosa, Berthe Fournier, Hildegard, Ophir superba, and 
numerous others. L.-c. X Ortrude (L. anceps x C. Dowiana aurea) is a 
charming thing, with broad blush pink sepals and petals and a richly- 
coloured lip. L.-c. Barbarossa is from L.-c. callistoglossa x C. Triane, 
and an improvement on the former. L.-c. Hildegard (C. Warscewiczii X 
L.-c. Decia) is a beautiful hybrid, having lilac sepals and petals, and a 
richly-coloured lip, with two white blotches and some pale veining in the 
throat. L.-c. Arethusa is a very pretty hybrid from C: Harrisoniana X 
