HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION xi. 
Mr. W. Swan, gardener to W. Leech, Esq., Oakley, Fallowfeld, 
Manchester, made his debut with a hybrid between Cypripedium Dayanum 
g and C. barbatum $, which was named C. X Swanianum by Reichan- 
bach, in honour of the raiser. 
Later in the year Messrs. Rollisson & Sons, of Tooting, flowered a 
hybrid which was said to have been raised by Mr. Mylam, from Cattleya 
granulosa crossed with the pollen of Leelia crispa, and was named Lelia x 
Mylamiana. It is said to have been raised in 1863, and is now known as 
Lehocattleya X Mylamiana. 
The following year revealed the existence of another recruit, when 
Zygopetalum xX Clayi flowered in the collection of Colonel Clay, of 
Birkenhead. Its parents were Z. crinitum and Z. maxillare, and it 
received a First-Class Certificate from the Manchester Botanical and 
Horticultural Society in April, 1877. 
The event of 1878 was the flowering of a very handsome hybrid from 
Cattleya Dowiana, which was described under the name of Lelia xX 
Dominiana. The second parent was said to be ‘‘some Leelia, probably 
elegans,” but long afterwards it was proved by the repetition of the cross 
to be L. purpurata. It was the last of Mr. Dominy’s hybrids, and a fitting 
climax to his labours, for if depth and richness of colouring be the 
criterion of excellence it is not only unrivalled among this raiser’s produc- 
tions, but is scarcely surpassed at the present day. It is now known as 
Leliocattleya * Dominiana. 
It is evident that some of Mr. Dominy’s hybrids were not recorded 
when they flowered for the first time, for Dendrobium x Dominyanum 
(D. nobile 2 X Linawianum ¢), which was described in 1878, was said 
to have been obtained by Mr. Dominy ‘‘a very long time ago,” and 
although not recorded until four years after D. X Ainsworthii it was 
evidently the first hybrid in the genus. Cattleya x felix also, described in 
1876, was said to be one of the oldest seedlings raised by Mr. Dominy. Its 
parents were Lelia crispa and Cattleya Schilleraiana, and it was after- 
wards named Leliocattleya x felix. Again, Cypripedium X calophyllum, 
which was described in 1880, was said to be “ one of the oldest artificial 
hybrids, having been gained at the Royal Exotic Nursery a long time ago.” 
It was a seedling from C. barbatum and C. venustum, and is now called 
Paphiopedilum X calophyllum. 
As we have been unable to mention all Mr. Dominy’s hybrids in- 
dividually we may here remark that they number twenty-five, and comprise 
six Cattleyas, one Lelia, six hybrids between the two genera, two 
Calanthes, one hybrid between Calanthe and Phaius, three Cypripediums, 
one Selenipedium, one Dendrobium, one Aérides (probably lost), and three 
hybrids of the Ancectochilus group. They extended over a period of more 
