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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
hybrid Cattleyas and Laslio-Cattleyas of the 
best varieties, chief amongst which must be 
mentioned L.-C. Antinochus (L.-C. Dominiana 
X Warscewiczii), a ve/y strong-growing 
hybrid. Three specimens of Angraecum 
sesquipedale, with their curious long-tailed 
flowers, seem happy in this atmosphere. 
Suspended from the roof are many fine plants 
of Cattleya aurea, all grand varieties, which 
must be seen in flower to admit of their ver\- 
good qualities being deservedly admired. 
Suspended in small pans are some nice 
plants of Coelogyne Schilleriana ; while a re- 
minder of the byegone days of orchid culture 
is a large plant of the curious Cypripedium 
caudatum, whose tail-like petals often reach 
the extraordinary length of thirty inches. A 
few vigorous plants of Bollea have soon estab- 
lished themselves during the six months they 
have been in this countrj-. 
Another large span-roof house contains 
specimen Cattleya plants, all in pots of si.x 
inches or more in diameter. In a prominent 
place is a large plant of C. Bowringiana Iili- 
cina, and close to it a grand specimen of C. 
Warscewiczii with fifteen leads, which, with 
many smaller plants of this species, made a 
grand display of bloom last summer. What 
will interest many is a number of recently 
imported plants of Cattleya Leopoldii, potted 
in nothing e'.se but coarse silver sand ; the}- 
are all flowering on the first bulb made in this 
country. Several large specimens of Coelo- 
gyne cristata and various Cattleya and Laelia 
hybrids grow well in this house, which con- 
tains in addition several plants of Epidendrum 
and a good collection of all the finest varieties 
of Laelia anceps and its allied species. 
Mr. Brooman - White's enthusiasm for 
orchids probably reached its zenith when he 
sent Albert Millican out to Columbia in search 
of still finer varieties of orchids to enlarge his 
already superb collection. This energetic 
collector published a book, which he dedicated 
to Air. Brooman-White, detailing his adven- 
turous journeys. 
The plants of Odontoglossum crispum in 
flower are looked through every week and 
marked according to the standard of thcr 
flowers ; those with poor ones are relegated 
to an odd corner to be afterwards disposed 
of ; while those which show signs of being 
improved with good culture are carefull)- 
marked, and noted again when they flower the 
following year. Should a variety of great 
merit appear it is carefully attended to by 
being placed in a house entirely devoted to 
these special varieties. This house contains 
some 500 plants, the majority being specimens 
exhibiting extraordinar)- vigour. To examine 
these for as many diff'erent forms may suggest 
the impossible, yet, with all these many plants 
to admire, each variety of Odontoglossum 
crispum has some distinctive feature, some- 
times a rare shade of colour, at other times 
the merest speck of pigment. With such 
diversity of beauty has Nature decreed they 
must exhibit in their flowers that, if a single 
blossom were picked off a spike from one 
plant, it could not by any chance be said to 
have come from some other plant. 
The variety of crispum named Mercedes 
stands out well by reason of it having bulbs 
of a blackish mahogan\- colour, and when in 
flower it is much appreciated for the purple 
pigment at the back of its well-blotched 
flowers. 
The Duke of Montrose is an ideal flower, 
both for perfectness of shai>e and elegance cf 
marking. 
The Duchess of Montrose is also of the 
finest shape, is beautifully suffused with a 
light rosy tint, and possesses the rare charm 
of being entirely without spotting, even on 
the labellum. 
Colossus, as the name implies, boasts of its 
enormous white flowers, and in habit of growth 
is marvellous. 
A plant with seven bulbs and two leads 
produces flowers which at once convey to its 
admirer an impression of the surrounding 
country in winter time, for, on account of its 
snow-like blossoms, it is known as crispum 
Mont Blanc. 
The variety gloriosa is almost equal in good 
points, and crispum Baxter's varietv is already 
well known. 
Crispum hololeucum, as its name denotes, 
has flowers of the purest white ; even the 
yellow^ on the labellum is almost eliminated. 
