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collection at tlie Down House^ Blandford, probably the first in whicli 

 these two species have participated in the parentage, and L.xGanhamiana. 

 In that of Mr. W. E. Brymer, at Ilsington Honse, Dorchester, Lcelio- 

 cattlei/a x Bri/meriana, a hybrid of complex descent, and Bendrolium 

 X Benita. In that of Mr. Ingram, Elstead House, Godalming, LcpJio- 

 cattleija x Tngramii, Cijpripediiun x V Unique, C. x Adonis and several 

 secondary hybrids in Cypripedium. Mr. Hollington, of Forty Hill, 

 Enfield, has obtained Cypripedium x Aijhngii, G. x Muriel Hollington 

 and C. X Evenor, all handsome forms of which C. nive^im is one parent. 

 The late Mr. Tautz, of Dibdin House, Ealing, raised two good forms 

 in 0. X Oouieijanion and 0. x Dibdin. Mr. Vanner, of Camden Wood, 

 Chislehurst, has obtained Ihndrobium x Vannerianuni, a Cypripede in 

 the Selenipedium section, closely resembling G. x leucorhodum, and 

 also a seedling between two varieties of Masdevallia Ghimmra, the 

 first recorded instance in the Saccolabiate Masdevallias, but the cross 

 having been effected between two varieties of one species the result 

 is not a hybrid in the accepted sense of the word. Mr. Statter, 

 of Stand Hall, Manchester, has raised Cypripedium x Daviesianum, 

 several secondary hybrids in the same genus, and Lceliocaitleya Clive. 

 Mr. C. Richman, of Springfield, Trowbridge, exhibited at one of the 

 meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society in May, 1893, a distinct 

 hybrid Cypripede raised from C. hellatulum x G. harbatum and named 

 G. X diaries Richman. And there are probably other amateur 

 operators who have raised seedling orchids, but of which we have 

 failed to acquire any cognisance. 



Turning to the hybrids obtained by professional growers, by far 

 the greater number of these have either originated in the establish- 

 ment of Messrs. Sander and Co. at St. Albans, or have been acquired 

 by that firm from the raisers. Their group includes a large number 

 of Cypripedes, several of them secondary hybrids, also several hybrids 

 in Cattleya, Lfelia, Dendrobium, Calauthe and Masdevallia. Messrs. 

 B. S. Williams and Son, of Holloway, have raised or acquired from 

 other raisers a Lreliocattleya, some Calanthes of the vcstita group, 

 and several Cypripedes. Messrs. Low, of Clapton, have exhibited 

 one Laeliocattleya, one Cypripedium of known and one of unknown 

 parentage. Messrs. Seeger and Tropp, of Dulwich, have exhibited 

 three or four secondary hybrid Cypripedes. Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, is 

 credited with one hybrid Cypripedium ; Mr. Lewis, of Southgate, 



