THE ORCHID WORLD. 



Vol. 6. No. 11. 



October, 1916. 



NOTES. 



CaTTLEYA CaducEUS. — C. granulosa 

 Schofieldiana and C. Gaskelliana alba are 

 the parents of this pretty and distinct hybrid, 

 of which we have received a flower from Mr. 

 H. S. Goodson's collection (gr. Mr. G. E. 

 Day). The broad petals are of a firm fleshy 

 nature and light rose-pink in colour, as also 

 are the sepals. The three-lobed labellum has 

 the elongated median lobe effectively veined 

 with bright purple upon a pinkish ground. 



Cattleya Gaskelliana alba. — Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co. exhibited at the 

 R.H.S., September 12th, 1916, a pure white 

 variety of C. Gaskelliana, which they had 

 raised from seed. Apart from the meritorious 

 nature of this flower, it was interesting for 

 the reason that coloured varieties have also 

 come from the same seed-pod ; in fact, the 

 seedlings have produced flowers showing a 

 continuous range from rose-purple to pure 

 white. 



Dendrobium Sander.^. — An excellent 

 example of good cultivation was seen in the 

 plant of Dendrobium Sanderae exhibited by 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean, at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, September 12th, 191 6. 

 The two tallest bulbs measured 4 and 3 feet, 

 respectively, both were well furnished with 

 leaves and carried an aggregate of 56 finely 

 developed flowers, pure white, with greenish 

 markings on the labellum. The plant had 

 been grown in a warm corner of the Cattleya 

 house, which proves more suitable than the 

 higher temperature generally advised. 



The Brackenhurst Orchid Houses.— 

 The range of Orchid houses erected by the 

 late Mr. J . Gurney Fowler at Brackenhurst, 

 Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, has been acknow- 

 ledged by experts to be the most up-to-date 

 in structural details yet seen, and at the sale 

 of Mr. Fowler's collection many amateurs 

 expressed the hope that before long these 

 houses may again be utilised for the cultiva- 

 tion of Orchids. It will, therefore, be grati- 

 fying to those who expressed this wish to 

 learn that Messrs. Armstrong and Brown 

 have acquired these houses on lease for the 

 purpose of cultivating the large stock of 

 unflowered seedlings which have been 

 removed from their establishment at South- 

 borough, where further accommodation is 

 needed for plants that have reached the 

 flowering stage. 



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Oncidium microchilum. — This pretty 

 species, of which a flower has been received 

 from Mr. Wm. Bolton, of Warrington, was 

 first figured by Lindley (Bo/. Reg., 1843, 

 t. 23), who then remarked: — "Although not 

 a very splendid plant, it is far from being 

 undeserving of notice. Its very glaucous 

 flower-stem, the snow-white lip and crimson 

 petals, lying as it were in the middle of dusky 

 brown sepals, produce a singular and pleasing 

 effect." O. microchilum was originally 

 discovered by Mr. Skinner on the top of the 

 Cuesta of Puentezuelas, in 1838. It was 

 growing on a bare rock, with a quantity of 

 dead leaves and grasses about its bulbs, and 

 its roots woven into the interstices of the 

 rock. It was very much exposed to the sun 

 except during the middle of the day, when a 



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