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all, they are worth recording, and even negative horticultural 

 results have scientific value. 



Returning to Mr. Godwin's work, I am glad to hear that he is 

 working at Cattleya and Laelia hybrids, also at Cypripedium, 

 Zygopetalum, Ly caste, Dendrohium and Phaius. 



Mr. Hugh Dixson, also one of our Members, has obtained good 

 results with DendrohUiin bigihbnm (an Australian species), Phaius 

 and Spathoglottis; while Mr. Williams, gardener to Mr. Onslow, 

 of Camden Park, has done good work with Vanda teres and several 

 Cypripediums. Mr. D'Arcey, Orchid-grower at the Botanic 

 Gardens, has experimented with Cattleya, Laelia and Cyjiripe- 

 diuni; while Mr. Hazlewood, of Botany, is another experimenter 

 with Orchids. 



Most of us admired the beautiful Hippeastrums raised by the 

 late Mr. Burton Bradley. His son, Mr. H. H. B. Bradley, has 

 obtained a solid reputation with JVarcissus, and for some account 

 of his work my readers may refer to his paper already quoted. 

 He tells me that his father left no record of what he did with 

 mppeastrum, and with regard to present work, he writes, " What 

 I have done with other flowers is immature ; perhaps if I live 

 another twenty years I may have something to say about it." 



Of other bulbous plants I have little to say. The late Sir 

 William Macarthur did good work with Gladiolus and Criniun. 

 Mr. Baptist had many successes with Hippeasfrum, but like Mr. 

 Burton Bradley, made no records. Mr. H. Selkirk, of Sydney, is 

 at work cross-fertilising bulbs, and we may expect results from 

 this conscientious worker in due course. The late Mr. T. S. 

 Mort obtained excellent results with Phyllocactus. Although 

 the employer of gardeners, he himself undertook the work of 

 polliniating as a recreation from his many absorbing public 

 pursuits. Mr. W, H. Catlett, later on, did good work with the 

 same group of plants. 



With Anthuriuyn Scherzianwin the same cross has given Mr. 

 Godwin rose-pink, geranium-lake, and a good white variety. Mr. 

 G. H. Kerslake, of Rook wood, has done a good deal in cross- 

 fertilising Chrysanthemums and Bouvardias, and has attained 



