﻿September, 1904.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



baskets or pans in such a compost, with abundance of water during the 

 growing season, and a very moderate supply during the winter. It pro- 

 duces trusses of large white flowers, with an orange-yellow blotch on the 

 disc. Laelio harpophylla is a brilliant vermillion-coloured species which 

 flowers from February to April, and succeeds well in pots under the usual 

 treatment ; as do also Maxillaria grandiflora, with one or two others. The 

 Pleiones and Dendrobium Falconeri may also be included, but both require 

 somewhat special treatment, and that of the Dendrobium was detailed at 

 page 215 of a recent issue. A few other species might be mentioned, but 

 the preceding are the most popular kinds. 



We shall be pleased to hear the experience or difficulties of others with 

 the foregoing or other kinds which they find suitable for the Cool house, or 

 indeed on the subject generally. 



ORCHID GROWING AT THE ANTIPODES. 



We 



hav 



e just received a very interesting letter from 



an esteemed 



corn 





ident in Australia, and our readers will doubtless 







thin 



g of the progress of Orchidology in that distan 



t region. A 



prev 





letter appeared in our ninth volume (pp. 200, 201), 



accompanied 



by a 





-e of Laelia crispa, reproduced from a photograph re 



ceived at the 



same time. Writing from Hamilton, Victoria, Mr. Poole remarks :— 



" Since sending you the photograph of Laelia crispa I have changed my 

 place of residence from Berwick. I have brought my Orchids with me, and 

 am sending this mail a photo of Oncidium crispum grandiflorum, which I 

 thought was very good. I got a First-class Award of Merit for it at the 

 R.H.S. in Melbourne in June, 1904, and think you may be interested in it 

 from so far away. My collection has done well. Cattleyas, Cypripediums, 

 Oncidiums, Odontoglossums, and a number of others do well here. I have 

 flowered a beautiful Cattleya Schrcederae, having pure white sepals and 

 petals, and the lip with a beautiful orange throat ; also C. Mendelii with 

 white sepals and petals flushed with lilac and marbled all over with a deeper 

 shade of the same colour, and a very fine blotch on the lip. A lovely 

 C. labiata had very pale-rose sepals and petals, and a lemon-yellow throat 

 to the lip, with no blotch on the front lobe, but instead five radiating 

 bright magenta lines. C. intermedia was very beautiful, with the colours 

 reversed, that is, the sepals and petals fine lilac-rose, and the lip lemon- 

 yellow with one small deep magenta blotch in the centre. The flower is 

 nicely perfumed, and the lower half of each leaf is serrated. C. Mossiae had 

 a flower g| inches across as it stood, about n inches when stretched out, 

 and was the richest in colour I have seen. Oncidium Marshallianum had 

 94 flowers on one spike. 



