NOVEMBER, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 333 
ORCHIDS AT WESTON-SUPER-MARE. 
THE old-established collection of W. M. Appleton, Esq., Hill-road, Weston- 
super-Mare, is, we regret to learn, shortly to be dispersed, and as we have 
just had the pleasure of seeing it a few notes may be interesting, especially 
as many fine things were found in bloom. _ In looking round, in company 
with Mr. Brooks, Mr. Appleton’s able gardener, we were much struck with the 
number of Cattleya X Appletoni and Cypripedium x Sir Redvers Buller 
in bloom. Both were raised in the collection, and it was interesting to see 
the range of variation they presented. Cattleya x Appletoni was derived 
from the rare C. elongata crossed with the pollen of C. Dowiana aurea, and 
was described at page 350 of our thirteenth volume. Over a dozen plants 
were in bloom, and in every case the characters of the seed parent pre- 
dominated. The habit, the elongated scape—in one case quite two feet long 
—the shape and colour of the flower all recalled that parent. The flowers, 
however, are much enlarged, and the sepals and petals more incurved and 
less undulate, their colour being bronzy purple, while the lip is strongly 
three-lobed, broad in front, and bright crimson-purple. In one case the 
isthmus of the lip was entirely buff yellow, but the veining of C. Dowiana 
was practically lost. One scape bore eight flowers. It is a free-growing 
and very effective hybrid. Cypripedium X Sir Redvers Buller was derived 
from C. x Smithii and C. insigne, and received a First-class Certificate 
from the R.H.S. in January, 1900. The combination of C. insigne, ciliolare 
and Lawrenceanum has produced a sturdy, free-flowering and handsome 
hybrid, with a broad, much spotted dorsal sepal, without any tendency to 
reflex, and well-spotted petals, altogether a very attractive flower. A score 
or more plants were in bloom, varying chiefly in size and the amount of 
spotting, and one was pointed out as superior to that certificated. _ 
The foregoing were not all together, and some others were duplicated in 
the different houses, but apart from this we have followed pretty closely the 
order of our notes. Inthe first house visited, besides examples of those 
just mentioned, we noted the fine Lelio-cattleya Ingramii superba which 
received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. last year, some good L.-c. 
bletchleyensis, from a batch raised in the collection, a well-flowered Lelia 
Perrinii, the rare Barkeria melanocaulon, examples of Epidendrum ciliare, 
a number of Cypripedium Fairrieanum, C. purpuratum, two good C. 
Charlesworthii, Keeling’s var., with much white marbling on the dorsal 
sepal, a light-coloured form of C. X Rolfei, C. X Julia (exul x Lawrence- 
anum), also a cross between it and C. bellatulum in bud, good examples of 
C. X Thyades (superbiens X Chamberlainianum), and two pretty hybrids 
derived from C. Chamberlainianum, crossed with C. niveum and C. 
Godefroy leucochilum respectively, with a few others. 
