xii. HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION 
than twenty years. Mr. Dominy’s name will always be remembered as the 
pioneer of this interesting branch of horticulture. In 1880, on the occasion 
of his retirement from Messrs. Veitch’s service, the Royal Horticultural 
Society presented him with a Gold Medal in recognition of his services to 
horticulture. 
The genus Lycaste was added to the list in 1878, when a hybrid between 
L. Skinneri and L. Deppei flowered in the collection of Mr. W. Marshall, 
of Enfield. It was recorded without a name, but was afterwards called 
Lycaste x hybrida. 
Hybrids now began to increase rapidly in number, and we shall only be 
able to indicate a few of the more prominent landmarks. Half-a-dozen 
novelties appeared in 1879, belonging to genera already mentioned. 
In 1880 another genus was added to the list, when the handsome 
Masdevallia x Chelsoni flowered for the first time. It was obtained by 
Mr. Seden from M. amabilis crossed with the pollen of M. Veitchiana, and 
the flowers exhibit a charming combination of orange and scarlet. 
In 1880 a batch of four hybrids raised by a new operator appeared, and 
were described together as Cypripedium X meirax, & chloroneurum, X 
politum, and X melanophthalmum. Reichenbach spoke of them as a lot 
of fresh hybrids, raised by Mr. Robert Warner, of Broomfield, whose 
history is not known, probably in consequence of a lost pocket book. All 
of them he believes had C. venustum for one parent. Their history was 
discussed some time ago (Orch. Rev., 1905, pp. 291-293). 
In 1881 a hybrid Anguloa flowered, in the collection of John C. 
Bowring, Esq., Forest Farm, Windsor. It was named Anguloa xX 
media by Reichanbach, who spoke of it as no doubt derived from A. 
Clowesii and A. Rucker. 
The existence of two new hybridists was also revealed, for Calanthe Xx 
Barberiana flowered in the collection of John T. Barber, Esq., Spondon, 
Derby, having been raised from C. Turneri nivalis crossed with the pollen 
of C. vestita, while C. X Sandhurstiana was raised by P. H. Gosse, Esq., of 
Sandhurst, Torquay, from C. rosea crossed with the pollen of C. vestita, 
and thus is a form of C. X Veitchii. 
For a quarter of a century English hybridists appeared to monopolise 
the field, but in 1881 a French hybrid flowered. In the Revue Horticole 
for that year (p. 346), the flowering of two unnamed seedling Cattleyas is 
recorded by M. Bergman. They were raised by M. Alfred Bleu, of Paris, 
from C. intermedia crossed with the pollen of C. Aclandiew. The cross 
afterwards received the name of C. x calumnata. Whether this was its 
first flowering is not quite clear, for another hybrid which afterwards 
received the name of Cattleya X fimbriata has been confused with it, under 
the same record, and Mr. Bleu is said to have flowered this in 1878. The 
