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in perfect health. The plant bore fifteen of its bright 
reddish-purple blooms. 
Then, as had been expe6ted, among the many plants 
imported of this orchid, some fine individual varieties 
began to appear. Of one of these, REICHENBACH 
writes : — 
Cattleya Lawrenceana (Rchb. f.) concolor, n. var. 
Once more a most agreeable surprise from Mr. F. A. Philbrick, of 
Oldfield, Bickley Park. It is an exceedingly fine thing, a Sanderian 
importation, having the flower of one whole shade of fine light purple. 
The anterior part of the lip is not dark purple, it has the same colour as 
all the other parts. Thus Mr. Philbrick states rightly it makes one 
think of a Cattleya Skinneri with no dark colour at the end of the lip. 
It is said to be very attractive by candle-light. I really think it is quite 
an acquisition. May it appear at more places. 
So far, I have been reporting the verdicts given in 
England. In the colony, too, the plant flowered about 
the same time, — at the Botanical Gardens among other 
places. In this latter place Mr. Jenman'S first verdict 
was somewhat disappointing, and somewhat surprising 
to me. He wrote somewhat disparagingly of the plant 
in the " Argosy." On account of the sea-breezes there 
prevalent, the Botanical Gardens are not favourable to 
orchids. Moreover due weight had to be given to the 
fact that the orchid was then flowering for the first time 
after it had been torn from its native home and roughly 
transported on men's backs for some weeks across a 
sun-scorched savannah land. Here in the Pomeroon 
river, where my own plants flowered about the same 
time, and where they were seen by Mr. Jenman after he 
wrote his "Argosy" note, the circumstances are much 
more favourable ; and here, as was therefore to be ex- 
pected, the bloom was much more abundant and much 
