THE ORCHID WORLD 



Vol. 6. No. 10. 



September, 1916. 



NOTES 



Cattleya Mendelii, six-flowered.— 

 We have had the pleasure of receiving from 

 Mr. W. Swan, Jamnagar House Gardens, 

 Staines, a remarkable example of Cattleya 

 Mendelii, the stout spike carrying no less than 

 SIX perfectly developed flowers, surely a 

 record number for this species. In the same 

 collection, C. Warscewiczii has produced 

 several spikes of five flowers, while Coelogyne 

 Dayana has yielded pendulous spikes 3 feet 

 long. Mr. Swan, who has been amongst 

 Orchids for the long period of sixty years, 

 was at one time in charge of the celebrated 

 collection of Mr. Sam Mendel, whose name is 

 perpetuated in Cattleya Mendelii, and he also 

 had the honour of first flowering Cymbidium 

 eburneum, this occurring in Mr. Leech's 

 collection m the summer of 1878. In this 

 issue will be found an interesting article in 

 which Mr. .Swan describes many events in his 

 life-long connection with Orchids. 



labris, 13 gns. ; V. Lowii, 17 gns. ; V. teres, 

 £20; brides Veitchii, 19 gns. and £24 3s. ; 

 A. Schroderi, £2^^ 3s. ; A. nobile, £\ \ \ A. 

 Lobbii, ;^io; A. affme, 10 gns.; A. Field- 

 ingii, i^i7 6s. ; A. Williamsii, 1 1 gns. ; Sacco- 

 labium ampullaceum, 22 gns. ; .S. guttatum 

 superbum, £i\(')\ Cypripedium -Stonei, £}i'j 

 los. and £\\ 3s. 6d. ; C. Dayanum, £1"] ; C. 

 Lowii, £\(i\ Laelia cinnabarina, 17 gns.; 

 Oncidium concolor, 18 gns.; O. splen- 

 didum, i^43 ; Odontoglossum nasvium majus, 

 £\(^ 5s. 6d. ; Miltonia Phalasnopsis, £\ i lOs. ; 

 M. Moreliana, 12 gns. ; Angraecum sesquipe- 

 dale, 16 gns. and 14 gns. ; .brides quinque- 

 vulnerum, 10 gns. ; Sophronitis grandiflora, 

 13 gns. ; Lycaste Skinnen alba, £\(d\ Pleione 

 lagenana, 10 gns. ; Platyclinis filiformis, 

 1 5 gns. ; Cymbidium eburneum, ;^5g ; Masde- 

 vallia Lindenii, £}i^; L.-C. exoniensis, 26 

 gns. ; and Epidendrum prismatocarpum, 

 27 gns. 



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Mr. Sam Mendel's Collection. — The 

 historic collection of Orchids formed by Mr. 

 Sam Mendel, of Manley Hall, Manchester, 

 was dispersed by auction, April, 1873, the sale 

 occupying four days. Mr. W. Swan, who was 

 then the cultivator in charge, possesses a copy 

 of the catalogue, from which he obligingly 

 extracts the following interesting prices-. — 

 Cattleya Mendelii, the original plant, 34 gns. ; 

 L^lia purpurata, 28 gns. ; Coelogyne cristata, 

 19 gns. ; Dendrobium Schroderi, 13 gns. ; D. 

 Wardianum Assam var., 28 gns. ; D. Fal- 

 coneri, 32 gns. ; D. Devonianum, a wonderful 

 plant, ;^I3 2s. 6d. ; D. chrysotis, produced 

 TOO flowers, £12; D. Wardianum, 11 gns.; 

 Vanda msignis, 14 gns. ; V. tricolor plani- 



Cattleya Lord Rothschild. — Many 

 beautiful varieties of this hybrid between 

 aurea and Gaskelliana have been flov/ered by 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean, who used an 

 albino variety of the latter parent. When the 

 strongest seedlings commenced to flower it 

 was noticed that they varied in colour from 

 white to blush-rose. After a period of a 

 couple of years many of the smaller plants 

 have reached the flowering stage, and these 

 show a much deeper colour, some being near 

 to purple. The seedlings from this one pod 

 thus separate themselves into two classes : 

 the one, vigorous and free-flowering, with 

 lightly-coloured flowers ; the other, slower 

 growing, but with much darker flowers. 



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