BROMELIADS OBTAINED BY HYBRIDISATION. 327 
Vriesea known in the trade (1880) under the name of Vriesea splendens 
major of Duval. 
When paying a visit to Mons. Kramer, gardener to Senator Jiinisch, 
at Flottbeck, near Hamburg, I saw a very fine Vriesea with cherry-red 
bracts, but thin and subdivided, and which Mons. Kramer entrusted to 
me under the name of Vriesea Krameri. 
But first 1 ought to say that at the same time as Truffaut obtained 
his Vriesea Mariz I obtained Vriesea Morenno-Barilleti, which is, as its 
name indicates, the progeny of Vriesea Barilleti crossed by Vriesea 
Morenniana (a variety of Psittacina) ; and subsequently a Vriesea resulting 
from the fertilisation of Vriesea Duvali by Vriesea incurvata, which | 
named Y. fulgida. 
To return to Vriesea Krameri. It was, indeed, a storehouse of red 
for me; and acting in the same manner as a painter who would use all 
the carmine in a tube of that colour, I fertilised Vriesea Morenno-Barilleti 
with the Vriesea Krameri; and the results were as I anticipated, for I 
obtained Vriesea Rex, which has bracts of an intense red, and united in 
the form of a broad spatula, as in the Vriesea Morenno-Barilleti. Thus, 
in the first attempt, a green inflorescence, slightly marked with red, had 
been wholly coloured by the intervention of a plant the narrow bracts of 
which are entirely red. But, as it is always essential to improve and 
intensify the qualities of a plant, | at once thought that by fertilising the 
Vriesea Morenno-Barilleti by the Vriesea Rex I should not only obtain 
a plant stronger in every respect, but producing a much larger and finer 
inflorescence, and of a more decided and intense red. I named the 
result of this fertilisation ‘ Vriesea Rex major,’ which gave me every 
satisfaction and confirmed my opinion that it is quite astonishing to see 
that each time one takes for the male, a plant having well-formed and 
very intensely coloured bracts, an accentuation in the colour of these 
bracts will invariably be obtained. 
EXAMPLE. 
Female. Male. 
Vriesea brachystachys, yellow and Vriesea Krameri, carmine red 
green bracts; plant small. bracts ; medium-sized plant. 
Progeny. 
Vriesea cardinalis. 
Broad flat bracts, very intense red; medium-sized piant 
Female. Male. 
Vriesea Barilleti, bracts yellowish Vriesia Morenniana, bracts red in 
green, dotted with brown; the middle, yellow on the 
plant strong. edges ; medium-sized plant. 
Progeny. 
Vriesea Morenno-Barilleti. 
Bracts intense red at the base, the rest of the surface golden yellow; 
strong plant. 
