72 ORCHID HYBRIDS. 



anther of niveum, one of Spicerianum, one of Chantiiiii 

 (which would have given resp. Tautzianum, Eyermani- 

 anuin, Ashburtonise). The three anthers were placed 

 on the stigma in a few seconds. I have nine nice plants, 

 two very strong growers with leaves mottled like Aylingii 

 (which is from ciliolare x niveum), but longer and twice 

 the width. The others look all Spicerianum stock. 

 This trial was made with the idea of saving flowers and 

 having finer plants to take up room; my space for seed- 

 lings is very limited." I have given the names these 

 crosses would require, and look for hybrids direct in the 

 line of those already resulted at other places. As I have 

 not found mention of other experiments to equal this 

 though many may have been tried I like to give it 

 special distinction. It is highly interesting to know 

 that different pollen will fertilize at the same time the 

 ovules in an ovary, though, of course, exceptions will 

 be to this rule, as there are to every other. 



Other interesting notes, across which I came while 

 writing up my subjects, have been related in connection 

 with the hybrids in the list. 



Seedlings, one parent of which was Cpd. Stonei, are 

 stated to require longer time to arrive at the flowering 

 state than others. D. 0. Drewett in Gard. Chron., 

 March 3, '93. 



While Cypripedium seedlings have flowered already 

 in the second year, other seedlings from the very same 

 seedpod have required double that time. H. Horner, 

 Gard. Chron., July 8, '93. 



Dendrobium. 



Of interesting notes not included in the enumeration, 

 I have to mention the following: Ddr. Dalhousianum 

 is reported as hard to cross (J. Douglas, Gard. Chron., 



