﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[July, i 9 o 4 . 



fine O. luteopurpureum, bearing two spikes of ten and eleven flowers, the 

 beautiful yellow variety Vuylstekeanum, a good spotted O. X Andersoni- 

 anum with the lip shaped as in O. X mul.us, O. triumphans, O. crispum 

 Theodora, with ruby-purple blotches, a very prettily spotted O- X Adrianae 

 with white ground, a good form of O. X Coradinei with white ground and 

 purple spots, also yellow forms, one of them bearing a spike of twelve 

 flowers with a very broad lip. This plant is used for hybridising, and is 

 said to bear seed-pods every year. Other interesting things were O. apterum 

 Crawshayanum, a very heavily spotted form, O. Hunnewellianum, two 

 plants of the beautiful O. naevium, O. polyxanthum, O. Hallii, O. 

 triumphans, O. Rossii, a remarkably fine form of O. sceptrum, and 

 O. Uroskinneri rosefieldiense, a very dark and richly coloured variety. The 

 variety album of the latter was bearing a capsule, with a curiously long 

 pedicel, as the result of crossing with O. X Yuylstekei, but Mr. Crawshay 

 states that this species is no good as a pollen parent. We noted also a 

 line example of Oncidium crispum, and the richly coloured Cochlioda 

 Ncetzliana. A few interesting things of which the flowers were not 

 expanded were O. X Hallio-crispum with a spike of 13 buds (this was Mr. 

 Crawshay's first seedling to flower), O. X loochristiense Theodora with 14 

 buds (said to have a white ground), O. X elegantius bearing a panicle with 

 six side-branches, and O. X Crawshayanum. This is said to be a difficult 

 plant to raise, and it may be noted that one seedling most resembles O. 

 Harryanum in habit, the other O. Hallii. 



CULTURE. 



The collection generally is in excellent condition, and it may be added 

 that Mr. Crawshay pointed out his first O. crispum, purchased in bloom in 

 February, 1881, a very ordinary form, but which he would not part with on 

 any consideration. His first Odontoglossum was purchased on December 

 21st, 1880, as an imported O. crispum, but it proved to be O. luteopur- 

 pureum when it flowered. It is still in good health, and Mr. Crawshay 

 remarked that it once produced an inflorescence <>f 54 flowers. The plants 

 are grown on open stages, beneath which is fixed a solid stage covered with 

 broken coke, which is always kept wet. Some of the plants are stood on 

 earthenware pedestals, but the centre is hollow, and as crocks are not used 

 in the pots air can always get at the roots. Bracken rhizomes are used for 

 drainage, a thick layer being placed in first, and the compost consists of 

 fibrous peat, with a little sphagnum moss, and a few whole oak and beech 

 leaves. These are not broken in any way, and being used in small quantity 

 they are always separated by some peat fibre. They then decay gradually 

 and feed the plants, while allowing water to pass away freely. Such a 

 compost cannot be overwatered. The floors are of brick, and the side 

 ventilators are shutters in the walls. Thick canvas on rollers is used for 



