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It was also a great horticultural acquisition, for while the robust 

 parent has flowers that cannot be called attractive, and the other 

 parent is a difficult subject for the cultivator to deal with, the off- 

 spring- has a most robust constitution, is remarkably floriferous with 

 well-shaped flowers of a pleasing shade of pink, and it has been 

 utilised for further experiments with the result that our gardens 

 have been enriched by a race of hybrids of the greatest possible 

 value from a decorative standpoint. * This group of hybrids which 

 we have called the Sedenii group includes, among others, t,he following 

 forms subsequently raised by Seden, namely, C. x albo-purpureum, 

 0. X Schroedene the finest of all of them for size and colour, G. x 

 oxrdinale, G. x Sedenii eandidulum, G. x leucorhodum, G. x Brysa, 

 G. X Perseus and G. x Phtvdra. Scarcely less remarkable for distinct- 

 ness and beauty among the numerous hybrid Cypripedes obtained 

 by the same raiser are the following in the coriaceous section : — 

 G. X cenanthum, G. x selligerum, G. x Morganicr, G. x microchilnm, 

 G. X Aphrodite, G. x Leeannm superhum, G. x Niohe, G. x //. 

 Ballantinc, G. x T. B. Haijwood, all well-known forms but of which 

 the following remarks will not appear superfluous : — G. x cenanthum 

 was the first secondary hybrid Cypripede raised, that is to say, a 

 hybrid of which one parent is itself a hybrid, and in the progeny 

 occurred the variability in colour since frequently observed among 

 secondary hybrids, G. x Morganice is remarkable for its striking 

 resemblance to the largest of all known Cypripedes, G. Sto)iei platij- 

 tcenium, and a still closer resemblance to it is seen in G. x Morganice 

 Langleyense, of which C. Stonei platytcenium is the pollen parent; 

 G. X Aphrodite and G. x microchi.lum were the first hybrids in 

 which G. niveum participated, while G. x Niohe and G. x H. Ballan- 

 tine have each of them the rare and beautiful G. Fairieanum for one 

 parent, and their flowers are among the most elaborately pencilled 

 and veined yet obtained. 



Passing to the popular genera Laelia and Cattleya — The first 

 Laelia to flower raised by Seden was L. x flammea, a secondary 

 hybrid from L. x cinnabar ina crossed with L. x PUcheri, for many 

 years quite unique in colour but now approached in that respect by 

 his later acquisitions L. x Illppohita and L. x Latona. This was 



* Orchid Review, I. p. 37. 



