^he Sunbury House Collection, 



Tunbridge Wells. 



FORTY years is a long span in one's 

 life-time, yet during the whole of this 

 period specimen plants have been 

 added to the 

 well- known 

 collection at 

 Sunbury 

 House, the 

 residence of 

 the Rev. R. V. 

 C. Kinleside. 

 Here then is 

 the o p p o r - 

 tunity of see- 

 ing the various 

 classes of 

 Orchids in 

 which ama- 

 t e u r s have 

 been inter- 

 ested during 

 the last forty 

 years. 



The species 

 o f Aerides, 

 Vandas, and 

 S a ccolabiums, 

 of which so 

 much has been 

 said and writ- 

 ten concerning 

 their stately 

 a p p e a ranee, 



are well represented, their distichous, ever- 

 green leaves and white fleshy roots at all 

 times being an ornament to the house. The 

 rare and curious Masdevallias, for which, not 

 long ago, many guineas were paid for sm;ill 

 pieces consisting of but two or three leaves, 



are here in large specimens. The elegant 

 tropical species of Phatenopsis, beautiful alike 

 in foliage and flowers, are examples of the 



Orchids from 

 the Philip- 

 pines and 

 other eastern 

 islands. 



The Phalae- 

 nopsis house 

 is almost 

 entirely 

 devoted to 

 these plants, 

 the majority 

 of which have 

 been in culti- 

 vation more 

 than thirty 

 years, the 

 large plants 

 being on the 

 side staging 

 and the 

 smaller ones 

 suspended in 

 baskets from 

 the roof. 

 The distinct 

 P. intermedia 

 B r y m e riana, 

 w h i c h was 

 named in 



honour of Mr. W. E. Brymer, llsington House, 

 Dorchester, is very rare. P. amabilis and P. 

 Schilleriana with its beautiful mottled leaves, 

 and several other elegant species, are notable 

 examples of the contents of this house. 



In the Cypripedium house a grand display 



C. Kinleside. 



