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Gee TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ORCHIDOLOGY, | Be 
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HE closing years of the nineteenth century were marked by a decline- 
in the number of imported novelties and an enormous increase in 
those raised at home. Among the imported novelties of 1895 we find the 
chaste Cypripedium bellatulum album, the albino of the species, C. Little. 
anum and C. Kimballianm, two interesting natural hybrids, Cirrhopetalum 
Rothschildianum, still the finest species in the genus, Dendrobium 
speciosissimum and D. sanguineum, two Bornean species which were soon 
lost sight of, Coelogyne Veitchiana, Angrecum Eichlerianum, and a 
number of others. Hybrids of the popular genera were numerous, and we 
find that Phaius Cooksoniz (grandiflora x Humblotii) obtained the prize 
for the best hybrid of the year, while Dendrobium illustre and Phalenopsis 
Luedde-violacea were additions of considerable interest. The flowering 
for the first time in cultivation of the remarkable New Guinea Bulbophyllum 
grandiflorum in the Burford collection, the publication of The Orchid 
Hybrids by Mr. G. Hansen, and the appearance of an account of the 
Orchids of the Shan States by Mr. R. Moore, the discoverer of Cypripedium 
Charlesworthii (O.R., iii. pp. 169-172), may also be mentioned among the 
noteworthy events of the year. 
The imported novelties of 1896 were mostly of botanical interest, 
Bulbophyllum Ericssonii being one of the most familiar at the present 
time, while the hybrids of outstanding interest in a long list included 
Cypripedium Baron-Schréder and Dendrobium Wiganie, the latter, which 
represented a successful attempt to introduce the yellow of D. signatum 
into the D. nobile group, flowering in three different collections. _Odonto- 
glossum crispo-Hallii, raised in the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., was 
particularly noteworthy, being the third hybrid of artificial origin in a 
genus that long defied all the efforts of the hybridist. Mr. Cookson also 
demonstrated the origin of the natural hybrid Cattleya Hardyana, by 
flowering a seedling which he had raised from C. Dowiana and C. 
Warscewiczii. An interesting paper on Complex Hybrid Cypripediums, 
by Mr. Reginald Young, in which 27 hybrids were enumerated as having 
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