November, 19 13.] 



THE ORCHID WORLD. 



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ORCHIDS AT MILLFIELD, 

 GRIMSBY. 



AN interesting collection of Orchids has 

 been formed by Mr. R. Leslie Cook, 

 ■ at Millfield, Grimsby, where several 

 excellent examples of plant cultivation may 

 be seen. The stove house is 12 feet in 

 length and contains various kinds of Aerides, 

 Saccolabiums and Phalaenopses. The 

 Cattleya house is 18 feet in length, and in 

 it a very general collection of species and 

 hybrids suitable to the temperature is 

 cultivated. There is also an intermediate 

 house some 12 feet long, and a cool house of 

 equal size. 



The necessary attention, including potting 

 and watering the plants, and stoking the fire, 

 is managed entirely by Mr. Cook and his 

 brother, who obtain considerable success, as 



Odontoglossum citrosmum. 



VOL. IV. 



Burlinglonia fragrans. 



is proved by the two reproduced photographs 

 of Odontoglossum citrosmum and Burling- 

 tonia fragrans, both of which plants have been 

 cultivated by them. The Burlingtonia has 

 been grown in the Cattleya house, where it 

 obtains an atmosphere similar to that of its 

 native home in Brazil. The flowers are 

 deliciously fragrant, the perfume resembling 

 that of the hawthorn. A very pleasing 

 variety of Brasso-Cattleya Digbyano-Mossiae, 

 and a strong plant of Cypripedium Fairrie- 

 anum bearing twin-flowered spikes, are the 

 subjects of two other photographs. 



The plant of Odontoglossum citrosmum 

 produced four good flower spikes, two on 

 each of the two new growths. This species 

 was first imported by Mr. George Barker, of 

 Birmingham, from Mexico, and given to 

 Mr. Thomas Brocklehurst, who exhibited it 

 at one of the meetings of the Horticultural 

 .Society at Chiswick in 1842 The beautiful 

 pendulous nature of the flov/er spikes caused 

 it to be the chief attraction of the show. 



In the year 181.3, Dr. Lindley figured it in 

 the Boianical Register, with the following 

 interesting note : " Although such plants as 

 this seem as if they weakened the genus 



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