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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
" BurforJ," T)ork.ing, Surrey. 
Photogtaphed by W,J, Vasey, 
summer, the flowers being rich golden yellow, 
with an orange lip, purple-blotched at the 
base, and fimbriated. Along the end of this 
house are some splendid specimens of 
Vandas, some more than six feet high, and 
clothed from top to bottom with healthy 
leaves. Some of these have been in the 
collection for over thirty years. 
In the same house are such plants as 
Sclionibiir gkia Lyonsii, with a pretty spike 
of twelve flowers ; Hariivegia purpurea ; 
good varieties of Oncidiinn Papilio ; several 
strong plants of Cattlcya Trian(E Back- 
houseana, which were added to this collection 
in 1884, and are much prized for the peculiar 
purple feathering on the petals ; a large plant 
of B.-C. Digbyano-Schrddcrcp, with fourteen 
flowers ; and, as an instance of what careful 
growing will do, a part of the original plant 
of L.-C. exonicitsis may be seen with fourteen 
leads. It was certificated in 1863, and passed 
into the Burford Collection in 1876. 
Another large house is kept as a cool inter- 
mediate one, in which can be seen the 
Jamaican Lalia vionophylla, growing well 
and showing many of its bright orange-scarlet 
flowers, the rare Warren tricolor, Cryptophor- 
anihus Vayanits, Maxillaria fiicata, Trigo- 
nidmm spathulatiim, Japanese Calanthes, 
and many others. 
The Masdevallia house contains a wonder- 
ful collection of these beautiful and interest- 
ing plants, which in days gone by were so 
much thought of. We venture to suggest 
that if their characteristics were more fully 
known by present-day orchidists they would 
quickly return to popularity. Mention must, 
however, be made of M. deorsa, with its pen- 
