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the same space. Cypripediums, Cattleyas, Lidias, Epidendrums, Lycastes, 
the late-flewering Calanthe Regnieri, Oncidiums, Cymbidiums, Odonto- 
elossum vexillarium, Dendrobiums, Galeandras, and innumerable others. 
Perhaps the most striking of all is, however, the lovely Oncidium 
Marshallianum, which is bearing its handsome panicles of golden flowers 
in profusion, one variety being very notable for its rich deep colour. 
Oncidium concolor also is freely employed. These are arranged with 
miscellaneous flowering and fine-foliage plants to form a bank on one side 
of the path with a few on the side also, but the space will not admit of 
grouping on both sides in the same way. The plants are very tastefully 
disposed, and we have never seen such a pretty efEect produced in a small 
compass. In a house beyond a good collection of Phalsenopses is grown, 
0. cirrhos im, 0. maculatum, and 0. luteo-purpureum being similarly well 
represented. Communicating with this house is a large frame in which 
Disas are successfully grown. Near by is a small house, very little more 
than a glass case, where the Barkerias, for which Dr. Duke is famed, are 
thoroughly at home in baskets or upon blocks. They are suspended near 
the glass, and with abundance of moisture during growth, and a good 
season of rest, they flower most freely every year. 
There are two other houses devoted to miscellaneous collections of 
Orchids, but they do not need special reference now. It must suffice to 
conclude these notes for the present that the Orchids at The Glen are in 
every way a credit to their owner, and the collection must be ranked as- 
one of the best of those in the suburbs of London.—L. C. 
Fig. 73 .—Db. Duke’s Odontoglossum teiumphans. (Half natural size.) 
mostly small plants at present, but advancing well, suspended near the 
glass with a general collection of Anthuriums and other stove plants. 
A house is devoted to Odontoglossums and other “ cool Orchids,” the 
varieties of O. crispum being especially good, several having large, round, 
beautifully formed flowers, pure white, and deeply tinted with rose. O. 
triumphans is also a favourite, the varieties of fine quality, and one, that 
represented in fig. 73, is exceedingly good. Dr. Duke has some of his 
best varieties sketched in colours on plates or “ plaques,” for su-pending 
in rooms, and that from which the engraving was prepared was thus de¬ 
picted of its true size. In the woodcut it has been necessary to reduce 
the size one-half, the original flower measuring 5 inches in diameter from 
tip to tip of the petals. The colours also were very rich, a fine deep yellow 
tint and bright reddish-brown blotches. Of O. Halli there is also an 
uncommonly fine variety; the favourite 0, Rossi majus, 0. Cervantesi, 
FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS. 
From a remark made by a friend, I have been led to send you a note 
of a display of flowers to be seen in this neighbourhood, which might vir/ 
properly be termed one of Nature’s flower shows. This occurs in a 
meadow on the estate of Lord St. Germans and consists of about five 
acres of Fritillaiia Meleagris, the white and the purple forms being about 
equally distributed. In the sunshine the gleam of colour, though modest, 
can be seen at some distance, and when amongst them it is difficult to 
walk without treading upon them. A thin undergrowth of Cowslips adds 
to the beauty of the sight. From the cottage to the mansion there is 
scarcely a home but which is decorated with them, numbers also being 
used in the making of wreaths and crosses to place on the graves of 
departed friends. The remark of my friend was, “ It beats even the 
