198 THE ORCHID WORLD. 
Warnham Court, Horsham, Sussex. 
The Warnham Court Collection. 
SUSSEX is still, as of old, one of the 
most thickly wooded of English coun- 
ties, and contains, among other 
notable features, many noble mansions with 
their extensive natural parks and exquisite, 
cultivated gardens. On approaching the 
architectural pile of Warnham Court, the 
residential seat of C. J. Lucas, Esq., and 
famous for its splendid herd of Red deer in the 
park, one is at once attracted by the harmony 
of the situation so picturesquely described in 
the lines by Mrs. Hemans : — 
The stately homes of England, 
How beautiful they stand ! 
Amidst their tall ancestral trees, 
O'er all the pleasant land. 
The deer across their sjreensward Ijound 
Throut^'h shade and sunny g'leam, 
And the swan g-lides past them with the sound 
Of some rejoicing- stream. 
In a sheltered part of the grounds may 
be found a large and important collection of 
rare and beautiful Orchids obtained from 
near and distant lands. The year 1885 saw 
the commencement of its formation, and ever 
onwards it has increased in size and merit. 
Although a very special interest is taken by 
Mr. Lucas in Orchidology he is also a lover 
of horticulture in many ways, and besides 
being a member of the Orchid and Floral 
Committees of the Royal Horticultural 
Society he was, in the year 1892, elected a 
member of the Council of this Society. 
One spacious greenhouse is almost 
occupied by a large pond around which many 
Cypripediums are planted, and grow with 
all their natural luxuriance. On a mass of 
rockwork at the back is a large plant of 
Cymbidium Lowianum, the \vater prettily 
reflecting its graceful, drooping spikes of 
flower. 
In a span-roofed house is a vast number of 
Cypripedium hybrids, both well-known plants 
and unflowered hybrids of, as yet, unproved 
merit. The pretty Fairrieanum, until re- 
cently so rare, is represented by several 
plants, and its hybrids are fast growing into 
the flowering stage. An interesting plant is 
