68 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
body seen inside the lip on the under side of the column, 
and the stigmatic surface is not viscous. 
The details of the structure of the flowers being fully 
understood, it will readily be seen that the first process in 
the production of seeds is to fertilise the flower intended 
to bear the seed capsule with the pollen of the other parent 
selected. This is readily accomplished by lifting the pollen 
masses beneath the anther-cap with a thin pencil or sharp- 
ened stick and placing them on the stigmatic surface of the 
seed-bearing parent. 
Flowers which are intended to be fertilised for seed- 
bearing should have their own pollen carefully removed 
before the pollen taken from the other plant is introduced, 
the pollen removed being used to effect the reverse cross, 
or to fertilise another species if desired. 
In fertilising small flowers with the pollen of larger 
species, as in the case of Sophronitis grandiflora with the 
pollinia of the larger species, the pollen masses may be 
cut and a portion of it used in crossing the smaller flower. 
When the flower of a plant has been fertilised, the plant 
should receive special attention ; if it is a Cattleya, Lzelia, 
or one of the large-growing epiphytes, it should, after the 
pseudo-bulb bearing the flower has had a number attached 
to it corresponding to the number in the stock-book in which 
the crosses are recorded, be suspended from the roof ina 
comfortable and not draughty situation. If the plant is 
in a pot, the pot should be placed in a basket and sus- 
pended; or if a suitable position can be found on the 
stage, it could be placed on an inverted pot to bring 
it into prominence and secure for it careful attention. 
Where there is a number of seed-bearing plants, they 
