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criticism, simply because the range of habit and the size and colour 

 of the flowers is so wonderfully wide that there is room for a 

 great divergence of taste. Moreover, what is best to-day may 

 not be the best to-morrow. At almost every meeting of the 

 London and Manchester Orchid Committees some new hybrid or 

 new variety of a previously raised hybrid appears, and though the 

 standard of judgment is being continually raised, Certificates and 

 Awards of Merit are frequently granted. The eighteen here 

 selected as " the best " include a wide range of colouring, and as 

 many of them have been in cultivation for several years, their 

 value has been fully demonstrated. 



Best Hybrids 



L.-c. Aphrodite (C Metidelii x L. purpurata\ is a fine 

 Orchid, and L.-c. A. Eudora, L.-c. A. King Edward VII., 

 and L.-c. A. Ruth are splendid forms; L.-c. Bletchleyensis (C. 

 Warsccwicz-'i'i x L. tenebrosa) ; L.-c. callistoglossa [C. Wars- 

 ccw'icz-ii X L. purpurata\ is very beautiful and variable ; L.-c. 

 Canhamiana {C. Mossice x L. purpurata\ is one of the older 

 hybrids, and its finer forms are L.-c. C. alba, L.-c. C. excelsa, 

 L.-c. C. Lady Wigan, and L.-c. C. Princess of Wales ; L.-c. 

 Charlesworthii [C. Dowiana x L. cinnabarina), is a brilliant and 

 beautiful winter-flowering hybrid ; L.-c. elegans is a fine natural 

 hybrid between C. Leopoldi and L. ptirpiirata ; L.-c. Ernesti 

 (C Percivaliana x L.flavd) ; L.-c, Euphrosyne {C. Warsccwiczi't 

 x L. Day ana) ; L.-c. EXONIENSIS [C .Mossia x L. cr'ispa) ; L.-C. 

 Fascinator [C. Schrcedera x L. purpurata\ a remarkably beauti- 

 ful and variable Spring-flowering hybrid ; L.-c. Fournier^ 

 [C. Doiviana x L.-c. elegans)., better known as L.-c. Berthe 

 Fournier ; L.-c. Greenwoodii [C. Hardyana x L.-c. Schilleriana)., 

 better known as L.-c. Henry Greenwood •, L.-c. Golden Oriole 



