150 GENERAL KEVIEW OF THE ORCHIDEa':. 



obtained by Seden from the same parentage, and three or four 

 Cypripede.s trora the same crosses as others that preceded them and 



whicli they resembled in every particular. I 



Tn the meantime two fine series of progenies from Calanthe and i 



Dendrobinm were maturing in the houses of Sir Trevor Lawrence j 



at Burford, Dorking ; the first of these to flower were the Calanthes 1 



of the Vestit^ section, to which C. x porphi/rea from C. labrosa and C\ • 

 vestita must be assigned the first place for distinctness and beauty of 

 coloration. A fine progeny has also been obtained from C. rosea 

 {Limatodes rosea, Lindl.) and C. x Veitcliii, which like most progenies 



with a hybrid parentage proved a variable one as regards the colour | 



of the flowers; among the seedlings the forms named Burfordiensis, \ 

 versicolor, Victoria Regina and Veitcliii lactea are veiy attractive, and 



in addition to these one named sanguinaria, whose parentage was ] 



omitted to be recorded, is very distinct, the whole forming a group i 



of orchids of the highest horticultural merit for winter decoration. , 

 This group was followed by the flowering of a scarcely less interesting 

 progeny of secondaiy hybrids between Dendrohium x AinswortliU and 

 B. Findlai/anum, of which the most distinct forms are named D. 



chrysodiscus and D. vielanodiscus , the latter being from the reverse ; 

 cross of the former. To this group were subsequently added B. x 



Ghrysostele, raised from B. Wardianum and B. Liiiawlanum, and B. ; 



Juno and B. xantho centrum, from the reverse cross. Some beautiful j 



hybrid Cypripedes have also originated at Burford, including C. x ] 



Leeanum, G. x Laurebel, 0. x Morganice Burfordiense, from the same ^ 



pair of species as Seden's hybrid ; C. x concolaivre, and several ■■ 



secondary hybrids. ! 



On the banks of the Tyne has originated another series of hybrids j 



in which the field of operations has been more extended and the I 



results consequently much more varied than in the series noted j 



above. These hybrids were obtained by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, of j 



Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, and include among Cypripedes, Cijpri- j 



pediurn x 7o, G, x GodsG-Qianuiu, C. x jduuerum, G. x Alcides, C. x i 



Boris, G. X nitidissimum , G. x Sandero-swperhiens, G. x aurosum, ^ 



many secondary hybrids of considerable horticultural merit; and also ■ 



some of the finest acquisitions by other operators have been raised ' 



at Oakwood from the same pairs of species and have very properly , 



received the same name ; of such are G. x Galypso, C. x MorganicB) '• 



