THE ORCHID WORLD. 
a cross between Lawrenceanum and niveum, 
and bellatulum and glaucophyllum should 
produce a good result. Many albinos are to 
be found in this collection, the principal ones 
being- insirae Sanderae, Maudiae, and callosum 
Sanderae. Suspended from the roof is a large 
piece of the branch of a tree from the native 
forest and upon which a number of Cattleya 
seedlings and a 
large Tillandsia 
grow with 
vigour. Other 
plants in this 
house are 
Oncidium Kra- 
merianum and 
Papilio with 
their curious 
butterfly - like 
blooms, a nice 
mass of Den- 
drobium Jen- 
kinsii growing 
on a piece of 
tree, and 
several good 
varieties of 
Miltonia Roez- 
lii which have 
been in the 
collection since 
i88g and are 
interesting be- 
cause this 
variety with the 
purple mai ked 
petals is now 
rarer than the 
albino or pure- 
white form of 
the species. 
Several baskets 
contain large 
plants of Odontoglossum citrosmum, and 
there are a very large number of unflowered 
seedlings in various stages of growth. 
A number of strong plants of Brassavola 
Digbyana are being used for the purpose of 
hybridisation, and will amply reward anyone 
who makes use of this large, fringe lipped 
species. This collection includes many 
specimens of these bigeneric hybrids, and 
those of special merit are Digbyano-Mossiae, 
which is perhaps the largest of all, the 
beautiful yellow flowering Mrs. J. Leemann, 
the superb variety of Digbyano-Mendelii 
known as Imperatrice de Russie, and Digby- 
ano-Warneri "Eric Lucas" which secured 
an Award of Merit at the Royal Horticultural 
Society, Nov- 
ember 1st, 1904. 
Another 
spacious house 
has one side 
almost occupied 
by 400 plants 
of the best 
Calanthes. The 
collection in- 
cludes Regnieri, 
Bryan, William 
Murray with its 
pure - white 
sepals and 
petals and 
coloured lip, 
and a very fine 
form of it 
known as Sir 
Redvers Bul- 
ler's variety. 
There are also 
plants of Phaius 
m a c u 1 a t us, 
Phaio - Calan- 
thes, Vanda 
-Sanderiana, 
and Cyrtopo- 
dium Ander- 
sonii with its 
panicles of 
yellow and 
green flowers. 
The charming 
Platyclinis filiformis with its numerous strings 
of small golden flowers, and P glumaceum 
validum seem happy in the atmosphere of 
this house. On the end staging is a collection 
of Thunias which embraces the large white 
flowered Marshalliana, Winniana with ma- 
genta-rose flowers, the hybrid Veitchiana, 
Bensoniae, and Majoriana. Suspended from 
Ellioll Fry. 
