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criticism, simply because the range of habit and the size and colour 

 of the flowers is so wonderfully wide that there is room for a 

 great divergence of taste. Moreover, what is best to-day may 

 not be the best to-morrow. At almost every meeting of the 

 London and Manchester Orchid Committees some new hybrid or 

 new variety of a previously raised hybrid appears, and though the 

 standard of judgment is being continually raised. Certificates and 

 Awards of Merit are frequently granted. The eighteen here 

 selected as " the best " Include a wide range of colouring, and as 

 many of them have been in cultivation for several years, their 

 value has been fully demonstrated. 



Best Hybrids 



L.-c. Aphrodite (C Mendelii x L. ptirpurata), is a fine 

 Orchid, and L.-c. A. Eudora, L.-c. A. King Edward VII., 

 and L.-c. A. Ruth are splendid forms; L.-c. Bletchleyensis (C. 

 Warsceiviczii x L. tenebrosa) ; L.-c. callistogloSSA [C. Wars- 

 cewiczii x L. purpurata), is very beautiful and variable ; L.-c. 

 Canhamiana (C. Mossia x L. purpurata), is one of the older 

 hybrids, and its finer forms are L.-c. C. alba, L.-c. C. excelsa, 

 L.-c. C. Lady Wigan, and L.-c. C. Princess of Wales ; L.-c. 

 Charlesworthii (C. Doiviana x L. cinnabarina\ is a brilliant and 

 beautiful winter-flowering hybrid ; L.-c. elegans is a fine natural 

 hybrid between C. Leopoldi and L. purpurata ; L.-c. Ernesti 

 [C. Percivaliana x L.Jlava) ; L.-c. Euphrosyne [C. Warsccwiczii 

 X L. Dayana) ; L.-c. exoniensis [C .Mossice x L. crispa] ; L.-c. 

 Fascinator (C. Schrcederce x L. purpurata)^ a remarkably beauti- 

 ful and variable Spring-flowering hybrid ; L.-c. Fournier^ 

 [C. Doiviana x L.-c. e/egans), better known as L.-c. Berthe 

 Fournier ; L.-c. Greenwoodii [C. Hardyana x L.-c. Scbilleriafia), 

 better known as L.-c. Henry Greenwood; L.-c. Golden Oriole 



