8 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



C. Crossianum, derived from C. insigne and C. venustum. Mr 

 John Seden now appeared on the scene as the successor to Mr 

 Dominy, and in 1873 his first hybrid, C. Sedeni, was flowered. 

 This resulted from a cross between C. Schlimii and C. longifolium. 

 Dendrobium Ainsworthii, raised by Dr Ainsworth's collection, at 

 Lower Broughton, appeared in 1874, its parents being D. aureum 

 and D. nobile^ and it is on record that this hybrid flowered eleven 

 years after the seeds were sown. Chysis Sedenii and Zygopetalum 

 Sedenii, both raised at Chelsea by Mr Seden, flowered in 1874. 

 From this time onward hybridists and hybrids increased rapidly. 

 The fine L^lio-cattleya Dominiana flowered in 1878; the 

 first Continental hybrid, Cattleya culummata, appeared in 

 1881 ; the first hybrid Thunia, T. Veitchiana, was raised both 

 at Manchester and Chelsea, and flowered in 1885; in 1886 

 SoPHRO-CATTLEYA Batemaniana appeared at Chelsea, and was 

 the first hybrid derived from the handsome little Sophroniiis 

 grandtflora. In the latter year an artificially raised PHALiENOPSis 

 INTERMEDIA flowered at Chelsea, and proved that P. Aphrodite 

 and P. rosea were the parents of the wild plant already known. 



About this time the late Mr Norman C. Cookson, of Wylam- 

 on-Tyne, and the late Mr Drewett O. Drewett, of Riding-mill- 

 on- Tyne, both exhibited hybrid Cypripediums of their own raising, 

 and in later years the former raised numerous beautiful hybrid Phaius, 

 Calanthes and Odontoglossums, being assisted by his able gardener, 

 Mr H. J. Chapman, who still manages the Oakwood collection 

 for Mrs Cookson, a collection in which her son, Mr Clive Cookson, 

 takes a deep and practical interest. The Messrs Sander brought 

 forward Masdevallia Geleniana in 1 886 ; Zygocolax Veitchii 

 appeared in 1887; Epidendrum O'Brienianum in 1888 ; MiL- 

 TONiA Bleuana in 1889; and the beautiful Brasso-cattleya 

 Veitchii in the same year; the writer well remembers the sensa- 



