174 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



one of Bletia verecunda crossed with our native Calopogon 

 pulchellus. . . .' 



In March 1899: — '. . . My seed -planting was very 

 successful after June in polypodium fibre (fresh fern mats) in 

 my tree-top eyrie, and from July till October I averaged 500 

 little hybrids transplanted to pots every month ; about one- 

 fourth still survive. ... I had an ancient moss-grown mag- 

 nolia chopped down and cut into slabs, some thirty of which 

 I planted with orchid-seed and kept sprayed. The slabs 

 coming from near the ground scarcely germinated a seed, 

 but those from 20 to 30 feet up yielded from 2 to 3 up to 

 about 150. I also tried oak. bark, but while the seeds 

 started promptly they were more subject to disease ; . . . 

 when transplanted to pots nearly all died. 



' Note. — These magnolia slabs were placed in a green- 

 house, not in the " eyrie." ' 



It is hardly worth while to quote the list of seedlings 

 obtained by Mr. Mead through crossing plants of the same 

 genus. But here are some successes which, very few years 

 ago, would have been declared flatly impossible- — as impossible 

 as a fertile union betwixt cat and dog. 



Cattleya amethystoglossa x Epidendrum O'Brienianum ; 

 a few plants alive. 



Cattleya amethystoglossa x Epid. radicans ; two plants 

 alive. 



Schomburgkia undulata x Epid. radicans ; several plants. 



Cattleya Bowringiana x Epid. cochleatum ; several plants. 



Epidendrum nocturnum x Epid. osmanthum and Epid. 

 cucullatum, pollen mixed ; several plants. 



Cattleya Bowringiana x Epid. osmanthum (Godseffi- 

 anum) ; three plants. 



Bletia verecunda x Schomburgkia tlbicinis ; several plants. 



Bletia verecunda x Calopogon pulchellus ; one or two 

 plants. 



