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with two Cattleyas and one Cypripede ; and Messrs. Heath, of 

 Cheltenham, with one Cypripede. Messrs. Backhouse, of York, have 

 raised one hybrid Cattleya; and Mr. Cypher, of Cheltenham, two 

 handsome Dendrobes, of which one is a secondary hybrid. * 



The hybrid orchids that have originated on the continent of Europe 

 and in the United States of America are few indeed compared with 

 British-raised seedlings. The first continental hybrids appealed in 

 the horticultural estabhshment of M. Bleu at Paris, who has raised 

 Cattleya x calummata, Cypripedium x javanico-su'perhiens and Miltonia 

 X Bleuana, the last-named from M. vexUlaria; M. RoezUi, the 

 first hybrid obtained in the genus but which was shortly afterwards 

 raised by Seden from the same pair of species; and many others. 

 In Paris wei-e also raised two hybrid Cypripedes by M. Bauer, of 

 The Muette, viz., G. x Garrierei and G. x Lnforcadei. Other hybrids 

 have been raised in France by M. Page, M. Paul Darblay, M. 

 Godefroy and Madame Block. 



A small group of hybrids are announced from Vienna, raised by 

 M. Horn, who has charge of Baron Nathaniel Rothschild's collection 

 at the Hohe Warte ; his best acquisitions are Gyjjripediwn x Horni- 

 aniiw, G. X Vandora and Lcelia x Horniana. And in the Emperor 

 of Austria's collection at Schrinbrunn has been raised Lycaste x 

 Schoenhrunnensis. 



In Belgium a considerable number of hybrid or m^tls (mixed) 

 Cypripedes have been published in the horticultural press, but in 

 many cases the parentage has either been imperfectly rendered or 

 only conjectured; others are manifestly from the same or reverse 

 crosses of older hybrids ; the largest number of these were raised 

 in the horticultural estabHshments of M. Vuylsteke and M. Vervaet 

 at Ghent, and of M. Linden at Brussels ; the others chiefly in the 

 amateur collections of M. Hye-Leysen and the late M. Moens. 



In America the hybridisation of orchids is quite in its infancy 

 and thus far some of the results of two operators only have been 

 announced, if we except a Cypripede of unknown origin in Mr. 

 Kimball's collection at Rochester, New York. Mr. H. Graves, of 

 Orange, New Jersey, is the most prominent amongst amateurs ; he 

 has raised Cypripedium x Edwardii from C. siiperbieus and G. 



* This enumeration only hokls good to date of going to pre&s. 



