HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSA. YAO 
At present, the secondary hybrids, or rather crosses, are hardly of 
sufficient quantity to speak upon with any great amount of certainty ; but 
an analysis of them gives a good result, thus: 
( x crispo-Harryanum = yenustulum 
ardentissimum x crispum = eximiwmn 
(x Rolfez = percultum 
x ardentissimum = venustulum 
x cirrhcsum = Fowlerianum 
x crispum = amabile 
crispo-Harryanum x nobile = Ossulstom 
x Rossii = Smithu 
x Vuylstekei = Vuylstekee 
x Wilckeanum = nitidum 
‘x ardentissimum = percultwm 
| crispum = Lambeamanum 
a x Halli = lapidense 
GRO re us. Pian ees 
| x loochristiense = Wigamanum 
| x nobile = formosum 
‘x triumphans = Lawrenceanwm 
Vuylstekei x crispo-Harryanum = Vuylstekee 
giving fifteen crosses, twelve of which (those in italics) are among the 
twenty-one finest. 
Fic. 61.—Opontrociossum LampeauraAnum. (Gardeners’ Chronicle.) 
White ; spotting rich deep brown. 
Should this remarkable rate of progression continue, the future has 
the promise of many wonderful things, but there is one great factor to 
obviate, viz. the deterioration consequent upon too much in-breeding. I 
advisedly say “too much,” for though we talk of fixing characters, I fear the 
