2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
by the collector in search of novelties, and the likelihood of the discovery of 
new species of Orchids of great horticultural merit is gradually becoming 
more remote, and those known to science but not yet introduced to gardens 
are chiefly such as are usually known as botanical Orchids. Dendrobium 
spectabile, however, must be classed as an exception, for it was accorded a 
First-class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society at its last meeting 
of the year, when exhibited by Major Joicey. 
It has been known to science for upwards of half-a-century, and now 
that Messrs. Sander have introduced it in quantity we may hope to become 
more familiar with it. At the previous meeting of the R.H.S. Messrs. F. 
Sander & Co. exhibited Dendrobium Hodgkinsoni (Rolfe), a distinct species 
allied to D. atroviolaceum, which they introduced from New Guinea, 
together with D. spectabile, and which had previously flowered with Dr. 
Hodgkinson, The Grange, Wilmslow, after whom it was named. Another 
event of great interest was the re-introduction in quantity of the rare 
Lelia Jongheana, by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., though the identity of the 
plant only seems to have been discovered when a flower was produced in 
the collection of Mr. A. J. Keeling, of Bingley. Among varieties of well- 
known species, novelties have been numerous, at all events so far as names 
are concerned, but they are mostly named without reference to those which 
have previously appeared, or which exist in other collections, so that it is 
impossible to say how many of them are really new. They add greatly to 
the interest of our collections, but the way in which they are named and 
recorded leaves much to be desired if any attempt is to be made to 
recognise them in future. 
PROGRESS OF HYBRIDISATION. 
But if the introduction of new species is falling off, the energies of the 
horticulturist are only being diverted into fresh channels, for the rate ot 
progress is being maintained, and even accelerated, by the flowering of the 
large number of hybrid seedlings which have been raised cf recent years. 
Indeed the progress in this department is so rapid that it is almost 
impossible to keep in touch with all that is going on. Almost every 
meeting at the Drill Hall, and at Manchester, witnesses the advent of one | 
or several additions to the list, while on the Continent and in America 
rapid progress is also being made, the novelties treading on each other’s 
heels in such quick succession that we can hardly keep pace with the 
records. A few of the more interesting ones may be mentioned here, 
prominent among them being the following, which have gained the award 
of a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S.:— Angrecum xX Veitchii, 
Sophrocattleya x Queen Empress, and Cypripedium X Hera Euryades 
splendens, from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Lelio-cattleya x Duvaliana 
and L.-c. X Imperatrice de Russie, from M. Ch. Maron, Phaius X Phoebe, 
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