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IHK ORCHID WORLD. 
L.-C. Golden Oriole, Cattleya indescens 
(bicolor X Eldorado), C. Octave Doin with 
its deep-purple lip and orange-yellow throat, 
C. Empress Frederick, and a selection of the 
best varieties of C. Iris, continue to increase 
in size year after year. A beautiful plant 
of Miltonia Weltonii with its beetle like 
blossoms, is in full flower and the sweet 
smelling Burlingtonia sanguinsa is growing 
on a raft suspended from the roof. 
Cattleya Trianas Cobbii is a, distinct form 
and has its petals flushed with rose colour. 
Cattleya Schroder^E Prince Patrick is a fine 
variety of this pleasing species, but space will 
not permit the 
mentioning of 
more than a few 
of the large 
n u - n b e r of 
species and' h\- 
brids which this 
house contains. 
The Brasso- 
Cattleyas are 
represented b\- 
the ever-beauti- 
ful B.-C. Dig- 
byano-Mendelii 
and B.-C. Mrs. 
J. L e e m a n n, 
which is just 
flowering. 
A large batch 
of Cattleya Mos- 
si^E, imported as 
recently as last 
June, is now 
showing well for flower. Zygopetalum Per- 
renoudii, a special favourite, flowers freely at 
Normanhurst, and is again producing its 
elegant flower-spikes. Zygo-Colax Charles- 
worthii, with a very deep-coloured lip, grows 
well by the side of a healthy lot of Miltonia 
vexillaria, including the large-flowered M. 
Bleuana. 
The sight of a large cool-house devoted to 
Odontoglossums reminds one of a curious 
incident. At one of the Royal Horticultural 
Society's summer shows at Holland Park 
Mr. Cobb exhibited a rare and valuable 
blotched form of Odontoglossum crispum. 
Odontoglossum percullum. 
which, after the show, was packed up ready 
for its homeward journey. By some means 
or other this was the last seen of it until a 
friend of the owner, noticing a fine variety of 
this species exjDosed for sale on a street 
barrow, purchased the plant for a few pence, 
and, on telling Mr. Cobb of his lucky find, was 
overjoyed on discovering that he had the 
jileasure of being able to return to him his 
\ alued treasure. 
A very pretty effect in the Odontoglossum 
house is made by a row, almost the length of 
the house, of some finely-flowered large-typed 
varieties of the brilliant red Sophronitis gran- 
diflora, growing 
m pans sus- 
pended from the 
roof. On the 
side stages is a 
wonderful col- 
lection of the 
best selected 
x'arieties of 
O dontoglossum 
crispum, many 
of them in spike, 
but all exhibit- 
ing such marvel- 
lous vigour of 
growth that it is 
somewhat diffi- 
cult to believe 
they have been 
grown from 
small plants in a 
very short space 
of time. Many 
of the best varieties have had the back bulbs 
removed, and these, when placed in small pots, 
quickly commence to grow. At the end of 
this house may be seen some remarkably fine 
specimens of Oncidium macranthum and 
Odontoglossum Edwardii The rare Odonto- 
glossums include O. Uro-Skinneri album, 
O. cordatum aureum, and many of the scarce 
blotched varieties of O. crispum. 
Odontioda heatonensis has made rapid 
growth from a seedling to a large plant of 
more than forty bulbs, and other fine Odon- 
tiodas, including the beautiful O. Charles- 
worthii superbum, are fast growing into 
