DEeCEMBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 355 
could not be crossed, but he believed one true hybrid between them had 
flowered. The hardy Cypripediums formed a third group, and there was a 
fourth, consisting of tall, Sobralia-like plants practically unknown in 
cultivation, though he had once seen one of them. In his opinion they 
constituted four perfectly distinct genera. The colour slides shown were 
excellent, and of the highest value as records. He greatly preferred 
photographic reproductions to hand-painted paintings, and looked forward 
to the time when photographs would be reproduced in colour with the same 
accuracy as was already obtained in form. 
Mr. F. K. Sander emphasised the enormous commercial value that now 
pertained to Orchid hybrids. In any collection of exhibited Orchids the 
proportion of hybrids to species was altogether more favourable to hybrids 
than formerly. Not only had Orchid hybridisation given to Orchid culture 
a great stimulus over all the world, but Orchid growers might claim that 
the results had stimulated the efforts of hybridists in every other class of 
plants. 
Mr. W. Watson made some remarks upon the history of Orchid 
hybridisation, and referred to the fact that it was due to an amateur, Dr. 
Harris, a medical man, that John Dominy was first led to attempt the 
cross-fertilisation of Orchids—that attempt being rewarded, as everyone 
now knows, in the raising of Calanthe Dominyi, which was first recorded 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1858. Mr. Watson added that the hand- 
coloured slides exhibited that evening were the best he had seen. 
Mr. A. Worsley pointed out that the albinos mentioned by the lecturer 
were not strictly albinos. They were only albinos in the sense that certain 
colours in other flowers were undeveloped in them. But they were not pure 
white to the exclusion of green, brown, and other colours. Consequently 
it was not surprising that occasionally the colour development was 
considerable. At the same time certain crosses undoubtedly possessed 
the quality of fixity. 
Sir Harry Veitch, in prop eee 
to several episodes in the early history of Orchid hybridisation, 
that he was perfectly sure that the members of the club would be 
€xceedingly grateful to Mr. Chapman if he would fulfil his yas on some : 
m on the subject of bigeneric hybrids. 
osing a vote of thanks to the lecturer, referred 
and said 
orthcoming occasion and speak to the 
MiLtoniopa Ajax.—Fragrance is an unusual quality among the hybrids 
of Cochlioda Noetzliana, and we were agreeably surprised to find that the 
flowers of Miltonioda Ajax possess a pleasant odour of Carnations, which 
Presumably must have come from the other parent, Miltonia Schroederiana. 
The Kew plant is bearing an inflorescence of nineteen flowers, and we 
observe also an exudation of nectar from the axils of the bracts.—R.A.R. 
