THE ORCHID WORLD. H 



Vol. 6. No. 5. 



February, 1916. 



NOTES 



Gift av an Orchid Collection. — The 

 choice collection of Orchids formed by the 

 late Mr. Edward H. Robertson, Burnside, 

 Forfar, has been presented by his widow to 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens. Edinburgh. The 

 plants, which ha\'e already been removed to 

 their new home, consist mainly of Cypri- 

 pediums, Odontoglossums and Cattleyas. 



R.H.S. Orchid Committee. — The only 

 new member of the Orchid Committee for 

 igiG is Mr. Ernest R. Ashton, Broadlands, 

 Camden Park, Tunbridge Wells. Apart from 

 bemg an entliusiastic amateur and the owner 

 of a valuable collection, Mr. Ashton has gained 

 considerable experience in Orchid matters 

 abroad, having visited Jamaica, Grenada, 

 Trinidad, and Australia. One other change 

 takes ])lace in the retirement of Mr. W. P. 

 Bountl, who jonied the Committee in lyo/, 

 when he was in charge uf the Gatton Park 

 collection. 



Orchid Lecture. — With the desire to 

 encourage the cultivation of Orchids, Mr. 

 Gurney Wilson will give a lecture, illustrated 

 by lantern slides, on "Some Essential Points 

 of Orchid Cultivation," at the Royal Horticul- 

 tural .Society, February 22nd, 1916, 3 p.m. 



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Orchids in Glass Pots. — When com- 

 menting on this matter in our last issue we 

 omitted to state that the idea originated with 

 Mr. Crawshay, who exhibited an Odonto- 

 glossum so grown in February, 1903. 

 Subsequently Mr. Law-.Schofield made the 

 experiment with Cattleyas and Cyi)ri[)L'diuiiis. 



CatTLEVA SkiNNERI. - 111 the )-ear 1S84 

 a marvellous plant of this Guatemalan species 

 was iJut up for sale at Stevens' Rooms, Covcnt 

 C]arden. It measured 7 feet across and 

 20 feet in circumference. No such plants are 

 seen by present-day auiatcurs, who are more 

 interested in hybrids than the wonders sent 

 home by xarious collectors. 



The Stansha\ves Court Collection. 

 — As announced m our last issue, this collec- 

 tion is being sold for the benefit of the joint 

 societies of The British Red Cross and The 

 Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem 

 in England. So far, the satisfactory sum of 

 £}00 has been realised, and among the plants 

 that have been eagerly sought after are some 

 fine specimens of Selenipedium Schhmii, 

 Epidendrum vitellinum and the Stanshawes 

 Court variety of Cattleya Trianae. Messrs. 

 A. J. Keeling and Sons are conducting the 

 sale, from whom further particulars may be 

 obtained. 



Vanda SanderIANA.— a wonderful plant 

 of this grand species flowered during 1884 in 

 the nursery of Messrs. Backhouse, York. It 

 had eight leading growths, carried 13 flower- 

 spikes, with an aggregate of 80 flowers. 

 Doubtless, the plant was newly imported and 

 full of its native vigour, for no such results 

 are obtainable under artificial cultivation. 

 Sometimes the shock sustained by a plant 

 during a long \-oyage is sufficient to bring 

 into flower many buds which have remained 

 latent during several past seasons, hence an 

 unusuall)- large i)roductioii of bloom. 



