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make mention of several dozen spikes of the 
golden Oneidium Marsliallianum, Cymbi- 
dium eburneo-Lowianum with two fine 
spikes; Miltonia vexillaria with 14 spikes and 
59 flowers; M. v. Snowflake, with 15 spikes 
and 85 blooms; M. v. Marmorata, with 
75 flowers; and M. v. virginale, with no 
fewer than 29 spikes and a total of 125 
lovely flowers. Then there were the grand 
Laelio-cattleyas, notably L.-e. Fascinator, 
L.-c. Britannia Westonbirt var., with two 
spikes carrying eight superb purple-red and 
mauve-tinted flowery and occupying the cen¬ 
tral position (see illustration' ; L.-c. E. S. 
Ball, L.-c. Ganymede Westonbirt var., and 
L.-c. Luminosa. The brasso-cattleyas, with 
their fine fringed lips, were a grand feature, 
twenty fine specimens being arranged, in¬ 
cluding B.-c. Digbyano-Mossiae, B.-c. Dig- 
byano-Schroderae, B.-c. Queen Alexandra, 
and B.-c. Mdme. Hye. The cattleyas were 
fine, notably C. Mossiae Mahomet, with four¬ 
teen richly coloured blooms; C. Schroderae 
Geisha, white, and finely formed; C. Dussel- 
plenty, Brasso-diacrium Colmani—a rare 
white hybrid, Coelogyne Parishi, and Onci- 
dium pulchellum. 
Mr. Jules Hye, Conpure, Ghent, brought 
over the lovely Miltonia Hyeana var. Eureka, 
with crimson base to the rose flushed white 
flowers. From W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., 
Hessle Hall (gardener, Mr. • Barker), came 
Cattleya Lueddemanniana Schroderiana and 
Miltonia Bleuana Hessle var., the latter very 
handsome with its red blotch and yellow 
disk. Odontoglossum Othmarschen, grandly 
marked with brilliant chocolate-crimson, was 
finely shown by Baron Bruno Schroder (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. Shill), The DeU, Egham. Mr. 
Evans, Congleton, Manchester, also staged 
some grandly blotched odontoglossums. 
Sobralia macrantha alba, a big specimen 
carrying over thirty pure white flowers, was 
a fine example from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
(gardener, Mr. Davis), Glebelands, South 
Woodford, and probably the largest speci¬ 
men of its kind. Also from the Glebelands 
collection came the rare, yellow-green Cym- 
shapely flowers, heavily marked w *' 
red-rose- oni a mauve-tinted ground 
Georgius Rex, with a splendid spi^ 
thirty-two grand blooms over four] 
across, with heavy crimson blotches • 
whitish ground; Laelia purpurata li 
Alexandra, white; Lmlio-cattleya Sylvia , 
Princess Victoria Louise, with ’yelloV fl. 
and ruby-tipped lip; Odontioda Diana - 
grand rich red flowers, vermilion tint 
Brasso-cattleya Princess Elizabeth, pale 
very mauve; Miltonia Oharlesworthi, a ‘ 
liant hybrid between M. Hyeana and v 
vexillaria G. D. Owen, and with a wondci 
crimson blotch at the base of the lip; L*’ 
cattleya Golden Glory, Odontioda Lutc^: 
and beautiful examples of the brilliant «• 
Bradshawiae, O. Charlesworthi, 0. Chant:, 
deer, and O. Keighleyensis. 
A lightly arranged bank of orchids f. 
Messrs. James Cypher and Sons, Chet . 
ham, merited attention, and indeed attr.'K * 
it by reason of its beautiful masses of Or - 
dium Marshallianum and Renanthera II, 
CHELSEA SHOW—ROCK GARDEN. 
Constructed by Messrs. W'hitelegg and Page, Chislehurst. 
dorfei Undine; and C. Skinneri, with eight 
spikes. Of the odontoglossums we have only 
space to refer to O. illustrissimuni Weston¬ 
birt var., with rose and red-brown flowers; 
A. armainvilliersense and Anthotes, O. cris- 
pum Zoroaster, A. Acme, and the finely- 
formed red-purple O. eximium King George. 
A beautiful and very gracefully arrang^ 
group of orchids from Sir Jeremiah Colman, 
Bart, (gardener, Mr. J. Collier), Gatton 
Park, Reigate, was very greatly admired. 
Particularly pleasing was the central pyra¬ 
midal arrangement of well-grown and good 
forms of Odcntoglossum crispum, Odontioda 
Brads ha wise, and O. Vuylstekse, set over a 
groundwork of asparagus and moss. Onci- 
diums and rare miltonias were associated at 
one end, and cattleyas and Dendrobium Dal. 
housieanum at the other. A few of the 
choicest features of the group were Odonto- 
glossum Queen of Gatton, with fifteen yellow 
and brown flowers; O. Vuylstekeanum, O. 
Phoebe splendens, Laelio-cattleya Boyled, the 
L. anceps hybrid with white, yellow-throated 
flowers; Odontoglossiim Thompsonianum in 
bidium Woodhamsianum Fowler’s var., with 
a pair of spikes. 
Mons. H. Graire, St. Fuscien, Sains, 
France, sent over Odontioda Chelseaensis 
St. Fuscien with a spike of twenty large old- 
rose coloured flowers. 
Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Haywards 
Heath, had a bold and startling exhibit, the 
ends consisting of big mounds of fine varie¬ 
ties of Miltonia vexillaria from which arose 
spikes of white odontoglossums and Phalae- 
nopsis Rimestadiana. In the centre the fine 
old Laelio-cattleya Dominiana was massed in 
a big group, about a score of specimens being 
set up, with a background of coloured odon_ 
toglossums. In the bays between the mil¬ 
tonias and laelio-cattleyas, the odontoglos¬ 
sums and odontiodas were associated wnth 
Cymbidium Humbloti, Renanthera Im- 
schootiana, Oneidium pulchellum, Dendro¬ 
bium Phalaenopsis, Cymbidium Pauwelsi, C. 
Alexandrae, etc. Of outstanding excellence 
w^ere Odontoglossiim Empress of India (see 
illustration), wdth a spike of nineteen large 
chootiana. All along the : 
dendeli, Laelio-cattleya boldly 
fascinator, and C. Mossiae oil* 
imid ferns. In the 
onias and odontoglossums 
vith the white Veitc^* 
he yellow Dendrobium rh''^ 
■ariety, Masdevallia Veitchi 
iTanda teres, Cymbidium rpidend^®* 
nass of Cymbidium Mandiff,^P 
licornutum, Maxillaria Sa 
all orange-coloured Laelia 
For elefance of arra.g-nen^^,,;,^^ 
ind the inclusion of p of otci. 
dessrs. Sander and Sons g adnu-- 
vas of great excellence. " , ^ 
he high light background, 
ns Rimestadiana, Coelogy^ g- 
:hera Imschootiana, and ek?*' ^ 
naceum were associated central 
nasses on either side of a pra-- 
>f cattleyas, Laelio-cattley > j^piU - 
^attleyas, from among '' Gottoia*^^ 
