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Till-: ORCHID WORLD. 



sends some of the flowers. The total height 

 of the inflorescence is 4 ft. 6 in., while there 

 are five branches and an aggregate of 33 

 flowers. At the Manchester Orchid Society, 

 January 2nd, 191 3, an Award of Merit was 

 granted to this plant under the name O. 

 crispum The Knowle variety. Although this 

 IS usually a difficult plant to cultivate Mr. 

 Hartley has proved that success can be 

 obtained when once its cultural requirements 

 are understood. Perhaps the trouble 

 generally experienced m growing this species 

 is one reason why it is so rarely seen in 

 cultivation. The Knowie variety may be 

 recorded as one of exceptional merit. 



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Good Culture. — We have received from 

 Mr. W. J. Jones, Orchid grower to the Dale 

 Estate Co., Brampton, Ontario, a photograph 

 of a specimen Cattleya Trianee having three 

 spikes bearing a total of 20 blooms, eight of 

 which are on one spike. 



York Gala.— At the fifty-sixth annual 

 exhibition Messrs. Mansell and Hatcher were 

 awarded a Large Gold Medal and Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co. a Gold Medal for 

 groups of Orchids. Messrs. Cypher and Sons 

 obtained first prize for the best table display 

 of Orchids. 



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Progress ln Orchidology. Mr. W. 

 Mansell, commenting on the Orchids at 

 Chelsea in the Journal of the N.O.E.H.S. 

 remarks : — " The great progress made during 

 the last twenty years in Orchids is really 

 astounding, and I am often asked have we 

 not reached the limit? I certainly do not 

 think so. There is plenty of scope for 

 progress for fifteen years or twenty years to 

 come, even if no further new species are 

 introduced. To the hybridist must be given 

 the chief credit for the progress. We are now 

 getting some lovely combinations of colour, 

 and the constitution of the plants being 

 vigorous we have obtained some fine subjects 

 for exhibiting." 



ORCHIDS IN 1877. 



THA T the past is full of interest is no 

 new fact, although it is not often 

 possible to reveal its secrets. Mr. 

 S. W. Flory, of the firm of Messrs. Flory and 

 Black, has brought to light a copy of Wm. 

 Rollisson and Sons' Orchid Catalogue for 

 1877, which contains many jooints of interest, 

 and allows us to gather some idea of the 

 nature of Orchid cultivation during that 

 period. Rollisson's nursery at Tooting had a 

 world-wide reputation, while the statement 

 " Established a Century," which is included 

 in the above catalogue, proves its long 

 existence. It is worthy of note that the 

 Duke of Devonshire once paid Rollisson the 

 sum of i^ioo for a plant of Phalaenopsis 

 amabilis. 



Under the title " New Plants for 1877 " we 

 find " Cattleya virginalis, having the appear- 

 ance of C. Wallisii or C. Eldorado, the spike 

 bearing from five to seven flowers, which our 

 collector assures us are of great size and pure 

 white, and is by far the finest of all the white 

 Cattleyas. Native of the Amazon Valley. 

 Plants as imported three to five guineas 

 each." This is, of course, C. Eldorado alba, 

 but the number of flowers is no doubt 

 exaggerated. Also Goodyera Rollissonii, " a 

 robust growing species, the leaves are rich 

 deep green, margined, striped and Ijlotched 

 with creamy-yellow on the upper side, whilst 

 below they are of a rich velvety claret-purple. 

 A fine addition to this family of beautiful 

 leaved plants. Price two to three guineas 

 each." 



Another novelty was Vanda undulata, now 

 known as Stauropsis undulata. " An elegant 

 small growing species, bearing short stout 

 leaves. Sepals and petals pure white, 

 beautifully waved on the edges, lip also 

 white, stained with lemon colour. This will 

 be found a great acquisition, especially to the 

 cool house, as naturally it grows in pine 

 forests at such elevations as to be frequently 

 covered with snow. From Upper Assam. 

 Price two to three guineas." At Sikkim this 

 species grows at elevations of from 5,000 to 

 7,000 feet, and flowers during April and May, 



