THE ORCHID WORLD. 
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Erias, Eulophias, and other plants of horti- 
cultural and botanic interest. In this house 
can also be seen some plants of Cynorchis 
purpiirascens in flower, which, although they 
have been in this country over ten years, are 
still growing on the original pieces of Platy- 
ceras uni- 
corne upon 
which they 
were found 
when col- 
1 e c t e d in 
Madagas- 
car. Sir 
Trevor's 
orchid- 
grower, Mr. 
White, sta- 
ted that he 
always kept 
them dry 
during the 
winter ; by 
this means 
the material 
upon which 
they are 
growing is 
kept sweet. 
Among 
the numer- 
ous plants 
that are 
doing well 
IS Vanda 
Walsoni; it 
appears 
little the 
worse for 
the four 
large spikes 
it carried 
last year. 
Bendrobium Jerdonianum is not a species 
which can be considered easy to grow, yet 
here is a plant breaking away well after being 
covered with flowers. It came all the way 
from India several years ago by ordinary 
parcel post. Before passing to the next 
house we pause a minute to look at an Eria 
Sit TREVOR LAWRENCE, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H. 
species, flowering for the first time in this 
country after ten years of careful attention. 
A change of atmosphere reminds us that 
we are among plants from a different climate, 
for here can be found Lycasta tetragona in 
full flower ; Epidendrums of many sorts, and 
their hybrids 
derived by 
crossing 
with Catt- 
leyas; the 
sweet- 
scented Mil- 
toniaRoezlii 
alba in all 
its beauty ; 
while in the 
front row of 
the stage 
can be seen 
a plant of 
O r ni t hi- 
diuni mini- 
aliiiji, which 
at first sight 
suggests 
nothing par- 
ticular, but 
when we are 
told that its 
c u r i o u s 
flower -spike 
lasts, and 
continues to 
grow and 
produce 
flowers, for 
many years, 
" How won- 
derful ! " is 
all we can 
exclaim. 
Notice must be taken of the rare Zygope- 
ialum Lindcnii, with its flowers of exquisite 
beauty, and of a magnificent plant of TErides 
crispum with ten flower-spikes. It was 
brought over from Bombay, growing in a 
native earthenware pot filled with pieces of 
bark. Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii and 
