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their habitats, but that fact does not detract from their raiser’s credit. 
‘Denisonie’ I do not consider a true hybrid, but a “ cross,’ as from the 
Fie. 59.—O ffrormosum. (Orci id Review 
White, faintly shaded rose-purple ; spotting lilac-purple. 
published illustration of it I feel sure it is the result of crispwm x Wilcke- 
anum, and therefore a reversion towards the stronger species from the 
weaker hybrid (“ Floral Magazine,”’ pl. 26). 
GARDEN Hysnxips. 
List completed to November 27, 1906. 
amabile (fig. 56) crispum x crispo-Harryanum Vuylsteke 
amcenum nobile x sceptrum Vuylsteke 
amandum nobile x Wilckeanum Vuylsteke 
ardentissimum* (fig. 57) nobile x crispum Vuylsteke 
ashlandense Kegeljani x Adriane R. Ashworth 
bellatulum crispum x tripudians Vuylsteke 
blando-nobile blandum x nobile de Lairesse 
Bradshawie Andersonianum x Harryanum Bradshaw 
* In 1899 M. Jacob for Baron E. de Rothschild at Armainvilliers, Paris, raised a 
hybrid between crispum and nobile (O.R. vol. vii. 1899, p. 65) which was apparently lost, 
for I have never met anyone who has seen it. It has not been shown in England, nor 
do I know anyone who has ever seen a bloom. Records in those early days were 
kept so carelessly that it almost now seems a myth, and this hybrid is so well known 
under the name of ardentissimuwm that it seems futile to adhere in this case to 
priority of name; for it almost appears to be a name only, owing to absence of records 
or exhibition. The reference given does not mention any spotting, and states that 
the flower was most like nobile. 
