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species, our hybrid can be but a vestita and nothing 

 else. But little importance should be attached to seed- 

 lings of Calanthe vestifca as regards scientific individu- 

 ality. Their kind is too closely related as that we could 

 look for distinctness in their progeny. As illustration 

 may serve the statement of Swan, at Oakley, Fallow- 

 field, who writes in G. Ch. Dec. 9, '82: " Some seedlings, 

 the result of crossing Cut. Veitchii x with the pollen of 

 vestita have turned out true Cnt. vestita, both the red 

 and the white eyed varieties, without a trace of Veitchii 

 in either form or color." Such peculiarity, of course, 

 has nothing whatever to do with the exceedingly great 

 value of Calanthe hybrids for the uses of the gardener. 



Of Masdevallia, I find mentioned that Lutwyche, of 

 Beckenham, pollenized coccinea Harryana successfully 

 with bella, and coccinea Lindeni with Houtteana, rais- 

 ing good capsules in either case, though he never suc- 

 ceeded vice versa. (See 0. R., Jan., '94. ) 



Of horticultural oddities in the line of hybridizing I 

 have to mention: 



Homer crossed Zgp. Mackayi with Epd. ciliare, as 

 well as Oc. tigrinum, and had seedlings of both. Gdn., 

 Nov. 2, '89. 



Chapman, for Measures, Camberwell, effected a cross 

 between Msdvl. leontoglossa and Pleurothallis Roezlii. 

 0. R., April, '94. 



Roezl narrates in L'O. (report G. Ch., July 7, '86) that 

 in Rothschild's gardens at Vienna, Schomburgkia tib- 

 icinis had been crossed with LI. purpurata, and Sobralia 

 macrantha with Ct. Mossiae. 



It is not known to me what became of the crosses. 



Veitch reports having crossed Zgp. Mackayi with 

 several Odontoglossa, but the result proved to be Zgp. 

 Mackayi in every instance. 

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