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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
Odontoglossum seedlings, and we can safeily 
look forward to some handsome additions to 
the already long list of hybrids. 
It must not be assumed that Odontos " rule 
the roost " at Walton Grange ; the collection 
boasts of a good lot of Cattleyas and Ljelias, 
and here, nearly twent}- years ago, that beau- 
tiful albino Lcv/ia Pcrnnii alba was flowered. 
Lcelia grandis tcnchrosa, Walton Grange 
variet}', originated here a number of years 
ago, and is to-day a rare and valuable orchid. 
No second plant of this variety has ever been 
disco\ ered, and what plants there are in cul- 
tivation — not many, I fear — are divisions from 
the original. 
Masdevallias, a class of orchid at present 
somewhat out of fashion, find a happy home 
here, and good examples of M. Harryana, 
M. Y eitchiana and M. ignca are to be found ; 
while the collection is noted for the cultivation 
of that lovely and useful M. tovarcnsis. This 
latter and M. Y eitchiana were utilised to pro- 
duce the second recorded Masdevaliia hybrid, 
viz., M. McYitticp, named in compliment to a 
daughter of Mr. Thompson. 
A splendid lot of Milionia vexillaria were 
recently in bloom, and M. Sicvcnsii is one of 
the successes in this collection, having been 
raised from M. Roezlii albaxM. vexillaria 
Leopold a. The plant is a generous grower, 
and flowers profusely. 
Cypripediums occupy two large houses, and, 
needless to say, all the best-known hybrids are 
represented. One house is devoted to si>eci- 
men plants, which during the early winter and 
spring- months make a gorgeous display. 
These plants promise well this year, and are 
sure to provide their owner with a large 
amount of pleasure. 
P. Weathers. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSSII. 
IN almost every collection of orchids one 
or more plants of thiis pretty and 
popular cool-house Odontoglossum are 
to be found. More than 70 years ago Mr. 
Barker, of Birmingham, named the species in 
honour of his collector, Mr. Ross, who sent 
the first plants over to this country from 
Mexico, one of which, on flowering, was 
figured in the Botanical Register of Septem- 
ber, 1839, t. 48. 
The plants are dwarf and succeed well 
when grown in shallow pans suspended in the 
cool-house. The flowers are from two to 
three inches across and usually borne two to 
four on a spike ; the sepals white, closely 
spotted over their entire surface with dark 
brown ; the ]>etals white, with similarly 
coloured spots on the basal or inner half ; lip 
broad with a waved margin, white, with a 
bright yellow crest. The flowers, which last 
a considerable time in perfection, are pro- 
duced during the winter months. 
Our illustration is from a photograph, taken 
April 8th, 1887, of the variety roseficldicnse, 
a remarkable plant bearing a 14 flowered 
spike, three of which died as buds. This is 
not the only plant which has produced such a 
remarkable spike, as a plant flowered in the 
collection of Mr. Philip Crowley, Waddon, 
Croydon, who exhibited it at the Royal 
ITorticultural Society on March 8th, 1893, 
carrying" a si>ike of lO flowers, one of which 
died as a bud ; but this, Mr. Crawshay informs 
uis, was " a poor variety of narrow form," he 
having made the note at that time. Unfor- 
tunately, this plant was not noted in the 
Crowley sale catalogue, and the subject of our 
note has never since had another abnormal 
spike ; perhaps this note may unearth some 
other examples of their gigantic spikes upon 
an usually four-flowered species. 
0. Rossii var. F. L. Ames. This fine bold 
variety was dedicated to the Hon. F. L. Ames, 
into whose collection it passed after receiving 
a First-clajss Certificate from the R.H.S. on 
April 24th, 1888. 
0. Rossii albcns. A distinct variety in 
which the dark spotting is almost eliminated, 
leaving only slight markings of soft green. 
This variety first flowered in the collection of 
Reginald Young, Esq., of I.iverpool, and 
received an Award of IMerit from the R.H.S. 
