CATTLEYA BALLANTINIANA & ress. ¢ 
CATTLEYA BALLANTINIANA X Rchb. f, in Gard. Chron., March 2, 1889, p. 264. 
The following remarks are taken from the description of Prof. Reichenbach, which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle at the place above quoted : 
“This is a grand success of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who raised it from Cattleya labiata Warscewiczii x Cattleya labiata Triane. I am informed that the 
leaves and bulbs are like those of C. Triana, the seed parent, and that the plant is a stout, free grower. The flower has the general shape and mostly the 
petals of Cattleya Warscewizii gigas. The sepals and petals are rose-coloured, lip distinctly trilobed, very wavy on the anterior half, but emarginate in front. 
The sides of the lateral lobes are fine rose-coloured, the disc is white with a median double series of extrorse purple reddish-brown short radiating lines, like 
those which are so conspicuous in Cattleya Luddemanniana. The anterior part is of the warmest, clearest mauve-purple, surrounded on the sides and front by 
white areas of the large, swallow-tailed, acute orange spot we find in so many individuals of Cattleya Trianze. The base of the column is greenish ‘white. 
This fresh pride of the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co. has been inscribed, at the desire of Mr. F. Sander, with the greatest satisfaction to Mr. 
Ballantine, the popular and intelligent head gardener of Baron von Schréder’s model collection.” 
ALTHOUGH it may be said that Cypripediums come in for the lion’s share of the hybidist’s attention, it is nevertheless a 
most noteworthy fact that other popular genera also show, though not to such a great extent, the effects of his operations. 
There are already in existence several beautiful Dendrobes, Lzelias, Cattleyas, &c., the results of crosses effected between 
various species which have lent themselves more or less readily for the purpose. We have now an opportunity of 
illustrating a new hybrid Cattleya. It was raised in our establishment, and is the result of fertilising C. Trianze with the 
pollen of C. Warscewiczii. In February, 1889, it flowered for the first time, and was submitted to Prof, Reichenbach, 
who named it in honour of Mr. H. Ballantine, the able gardener of Baron J. H. W. Schréder, of The Dell, Egham. 
The robust growth of C. Ballantiniana readily reminds one of C. Trianze, and the relationship to C. Warscewiczii 
is easily recognisable in the handsome, richly-coloured flowers. The sepals and petals are of a beautiful deep rose colour, 
and the elegantly frilled lip is washed with the same colour on each side. The disc is pure white, with a bright yellow 
stain at the base, where there are a few broad, radiating, dark purple lines, while the anterior spreading portion of the lip 
is of the deepest mauve purple, shading off into a paler conspicuous border, which is at once characteristic and attractive, 
Drawn from a plant which first flowered in our establishment. 
