^he dM^undham Collection, 



Chichester, Sussex. 



THE ]Mundham collection of Orchids has 

 long been renowned for the many very 

 rare and curious specimens which it 

 contains. Many an amateur has possessed 



means a small jolant, \'ery often too small 

 to produce a flower spike. One is, therefore, 

 more than pleased with the numerous large 

 specimens contained in the very interesting 



the desire to visit the Tropics in order to see 

 Orchids growing in their natural habitat, but 

 travellers would have many a weary day's 

 march before discovering such elegant plants 

 as exist at Mundham. It is true that many of 

 them are represented in other collections, but 

 represented, in the case of rarities, frequently 



collection belonging to the Rev. J. C. B. 

 Fletcher, Mundham, Chichester. 



Antiquity now has many admirers, gratifica- 

 tion being often obtained by the acquisition 

 of that which age has made venerable. 

 Hybrids, therefore, the result of modern work, 

 have, in this collection, little attention 



