THE GARDENING WORLD 
137 
October 81, 1896. 
Potting Liliums. —Keep the bulbs well down in 
the pot when you pot your Liliums, B. Enterton. The 
pot should be filled about two thirds full when pot- 
tiDg is finished, and the scales of the bulb should be 
just peeping above the soil. This will leave room 
for a top dressing of rich compost presently. 
Liliums always make a lot of thick fleshy roots at 
the bases of the stems, and a top dressing at the 
right time is of great value. Accordingly it is 
important that room should be allowed for it now. 
VANDA SANDERIANA. 
This grand Vanda was originally discovered by M. 
Roebelin, collector for Messrs. F. Sander & Co., in 
1882, in the south-east of Mindanao. It first 
flowered in this country in the famous collection 
of Mr. Lee, at Downside, Leatherhead in 
1883, when it created a considerable amount of 
sensation amongst Orchid growers, and caused a 
large demand for it. The sensation was practically 
renewed at the Drill Hall, on the 13th inst., when J. 
Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Davis), South 
Woodford, Essex, exhibited the largest and best- 
flowered plant which has ever been seen in this 
CAMBRIDGE LODGE, CAMBERWELL. 
Within two and a half miles of Charing Cross, as 
the crow flies, under the smoke-laden atmosphere- of 
the densely populated neighbourhood of Camberwell, 
is the town residence of R. I. Measures, Esq., 
Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, Camberwell. 
Here for many years past he has had a splendid 
collection of Orchids ; and one need only inspect 
them to learn what can be accomplished in the way 
of Orchid culture under the most unpromising—we 
shall not say unfavourable—circumstances, after 
having seen the healthy condition of the plants. 
The situation might aply be described as a London 
back yard, for the greater portion of the garden is 
covered with seventeen glasshouses and surrounded 
by dwelling houses. 
For some years past the collection of Phalaenopsis 
had been doing very badly, and there was some 
intention of throwing them away. To give them 
another chance they were placed in a different 
house. Some were brought back and suspended 
from the roof in the original house, and they 
commenced to grow away so freely that all were 
served in the same way. Everyone of them, even 
Cattleya labiata in the Cattleya house, and this will 
be kept up for weeks to come by the introduction of 
flowering specimens from another house. There are 
300 Cattleyas of various species on the establishment. 
C. labiata R. I. Measures' var. is also flowering 
beautifully in this house. It came out of an importa¬ 
tion made by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. A magnifi¬ 
cent variety named C. 1 . superba came out of one of 
Messrs. Linden’s importations. It strongly resem¬ 
bles C. 1 . Warneri, with a huge lip. Other varieties 
vary greatly in colour. Amongst them is a beautiful 
variety of Laelia elegansjwith pale rosy-white sepals 
and petals and a rich crimson lip; it is of recent 
importation, flowering for the first time. All 
are grown in pots and baskets. Cattleya dowiana 
aurea grows freely here, and is both handsome and 
conspicuous. A dark variety of C. bowringiana 
is in bloom; also C. gigas, Oncidium tigrinum 
and Vanda caerulea, but the latter is always 
pale in the dusky atmosphere of this neighbourhood. 
The cool Cypripedium house contains large batches 
of showy and useful kinds for cut flower purposes, 
and are being kept back for Christmas. The plants 
are bristling with flower scapes by the hundred. The 
Vanda sanderiana. 
country, and to which the Royal Horticultural 
Society rightly awarded a Gold Medal. 
The plant was brought home under the especial care 
of Mr. Boxall, ODe of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co.'s col¬ 
lectors, and J.Gurney Fowler, Esq., became the fortu¬ 
nate possessor soon after. The first time it flowered, 
after importation, it bore only about three spikes of 
bloom. The plant took kindly, however, to the 
treatment accorded it by Mr. Davis, and not only 
became well established but made such progress that 
it pushed up twelve flower spikes. One of the 
latter was destroyed by a hungry cockroach in its 
early stages ; but the safety of the rest was secured. 
The eleven spikes bore in the aggregate 127 flowers, 
of a richer or darker colour than usual. This would 
give an average of eleven and a-half flowers or thereby 
to each spike, several of which bore twelve or more 
flowers. The old stems would have given the plant 
a somewhat leggy appearance if they had not been 
accompanied with numerous young growths from the 
base. The accompanying illustration was prepared 
from a photograph of the plant as it stood in the 
Orchid house in which it was grown at South Wood¬ 
ford. A better general idea of its magnificence 
would have been gained if the plant had been 
isolated so as to show off its individuality. 
the smallest made excellent growth during the past 
summer, and are now commencing to throw up their 
flower spikes. Formerly the baskets containing them 
were stood upon a side bench, but the altered treat¬ 
ment has given them a fresh lease of life, and their 
health is now fully established. In this category we 
place P. grandiflora, P. amabilis, P. schilleriana, P. 
tetraspis, P. violacea, and P. v. schroderiana, with 
rosy tinted flowers. 
The Laelia purpurata house has been brightened 
for some time past with several Cattleyas, including 
a beautiful form of C. hardyana, having deep rose 
petals and two large orange blotches at the base of 
the lamina of the lip Very choice and distinct is 
C. labiata R. I. Measures’ var., with white flowers, 
excepting a blotch of soft rosy veins upon the lip. 
Here also is Laeliocattleya corbeillensis, obtained 
from Cattleya Loddigesii crossed with Laelia pumila 
marginata. The white, nodding flowers of Maxil- 
laria venusta are also very prominent. Lycastes in 
another house are doing well. In one of the Cypri¬ 
pedium houses all sections are represented and doing 
well. 
There is a fine display of the autumn-flowering 
house also contains a number of Masdevallias. 
including M. laucheana, full of flowers, and M. 
muscosa, with the mossy scapes and a sensitive lip, 
now preparing to flower the second time from last 
years flower stalks just as M. tovarensis does. A 
small flowering species is Restrepia Lansbergii but 
the blooms are richer in colour than R. elegans. 
Close by is another house in several divisions, one 
of which is largely devoted to the botanical species 
of Masdevallia, many of which have been honoured 
with Botanical Certificates from the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society. The spotted M. guttula, the pale 
yellow M. Wageneri, and the dark purple M. 
glaphyrantha are full of interest. M. attenuata is 
creamy-yellow, striped with purple. A highly 
coloured form of Restrepia antennifera is notable for 
the great size of its lateral sepals. Cypripedium 
insigne montanum may be seen here in great variety. 
A curiosity in its way is a piece of C. insigne with 
variegated foliage and flowers. Though not an 
Orchid we can scarcely overlook the Australian 
Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis). A large 
piece of it had been broken up, and each portion 
potted separately in peat fibre and sphagnum. All 
