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might have displayed such character. It has now 

 flowered for four years and proves its character to be 

 constant. "W. D.," in Gard. Chron., Dec. 10, '92, re- 

 ports on this medea monstrosa and tells us that it has 

 been impregnated again with a view to restore the pouch. 

 If "W. D." should not have quite understood the char- 

 acter of the abnormal, though constant flower, we are 

 neverthelesss very much interested with what he may 

 produce, and thank him for further information. 



Next time when you have a trilabella flower of an 

 orchid in your collection, use its pollen and also fertilize 

 its stigma; though, of course, a trilabella being a mon- 

 strosity, or rather an abnormal flower, you have to make 

 the best of whatever of the sexual organs you find in 

 healthy condition. If your first attempt at fixing such 

 abnormal state fails, try again, and again. If you do 

 not produce gorgeousness or beauty, you perhaps suc- 

 ceed in arriving at flowers the product of which should 

 be paid highly for by botanic institutions. 



It might also be cited at this place the instance of the 

 dimidiate Cpd. Harrisianum Dauthieri x fig. in G. Ch., 

 March 16, '95, showing a separated marking of barbatum 

 and villosum. We learn that it is a "sport," an un- 

 perfect blending of the characters of the resp. parents. 

 But the report fails to inform us whether this sport is 

 constant or only temporal. 



The contents of a very interesting letter from William 

 Grey, Kenwood Gate, Albany, N. Y., have been em- 

 bodied in the list of hybrids wherever the crosses per- 

 fected required their place, but aside from expressing 

 my obligation for such liberal information as furnished 

 by him, I have to mention specially a cross performed 

 with Cypripedia. He writes: " In 1892, feeling Pick- 

 wickian, I fertilized barbatum pulcherrimum with one 



