HYBRIDISATION, SEEDS, & SEEDLINGS 9 



tion this fine hybrid between Brassavola Digbyana and Cattleya 

 Mossia caused at the Chelsea Nursery when it flowered, and the 

 great interest taken when it was exhibited before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society. Cymbidium Veitchii also flowered in that 

 memorable year, but for a long time it was called Cymbidium 

 eburneo-Lowianum. The first hybrid Odontoglossum was raised 

 on the Continent by M. Leroy, who proved the parentage of 

 Odontoglossum Wilckeanum by raising it from 0. crispum and 

 0. luteopurpureum ; it flowered in 1 890. A year later an arti- 

 ficially raised O. excellens flowered at Chelsea, the parents of this 

 elegant Orchid being 0. nobile [Pescatorei] and 0. triumphans. 



It is impossible in the space at command to enumerate all the 

 hybrids that appeared from 1890 onward, but a few deserve 

 mention for the purpose of indicating the progress made. DiSA 

 Veitchii flowered in 1891 ; Vanda Miss Joaquim in 1893; 

 SoBRALiA Veitchii in 1894; Sophro-l.sxia LiETA and Epi- 

 LJELiA Hardyana (Sander) in the same year; Odontoglossum 

 CooKSONii in 1896; Epi-cattleya matutina in 1897; Spatho- 

 GLOTTis Veitchii in the same year ; Brasso-cat-l-Elia Law- 

 RENCEi in 1897, the first tri-generic Orchid, M. Chas. Vuylsteke, 

 of Ghent ; M. Chas. Maron, of Brunoy ; M. A. de Lairesse, of 

 Liege ; M. Peeters, of Brussels ; Mr De Barri Crawshay, of 

 Sevenoaks ; Mr W. Thompson, of Stone ; and Messrs Charles- 

 worth & Co., then of Bradford, all now appeared prominently in 

 the ranks of hybridists, and the zeal of the earlier raisers was in no 

 way abated. 



Odontioda Vuylstekeje created a sensation at the Temple 

 Show of 1904, and showed the great possibilities of combinations 

 between Odontoglossums and Cochliodas, and in the years that 

 have followed many beautiful Odontiodas have appeared to enrich 

 our Orchid collections. In these recent years Messrs Charlesworth 



