APRIL, 1915-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 125. 
Where the amateur has a great liking for Orchids of the Cattleya type, 
it will be found better to include a large percentage of hybrids, as these 
flower more freely and grow better under beginners’ culture than the 
species. A good selection should always comprise the following :— 
Leliocattleya bletchleyensis, Canhamiana, callistoglossa, Dominiana,. 
Fascinator, luminosa, and Martinetii. 
Cattleya Enid and Iris. 
Brassocattleya Maroniz, heatonensis, and Veitchii. 
Next month I hope to describe the method of potting Cattleyas. 
FINE plant of Lycaste Janete (Skinneri X Rossiana), bearing eight 
flowers, was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on March 16th, by 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, and received an Award of Merit. This- 
interesting hybrid was originally raised in the collection of the late H. J. 
Ross, Esq., and was described in these pages in 1899 (O.R., vi. p. 366). It 
was dedicated to Mrs. Janet Ross, who, it is interesting to note, still 
maintains the collection at Poggio Gherardo, Florence. The original 
plant had yellow flowers, more or less dotted with red at the base of the 
segments, and the base of the column deep red-purple. The following year 
three others flowered, one of which was much nearer L. Skinneri, the 
sepals and petals being dotted all over with rose (0.R., viii. p. 158). In 
tg0r Mrs. Ross wrote: ‘The Lycaste which you did me the honour to 
name after me has bloomed profusely. We have twelve pots, all strong 
plants, out of one seed pod. Two have rose-coloured sepals and petals 
with light yellow lip; three are canary-yellow with dark yellow lip and a 
few darkish spots on the sepals near the lip; and two are apple green 
fading into yellow, with a yellow lip. The others have not yet bloomed ” 
(O.R., ix. p. 95). Two years later Mrs. Ross sent a photograph 
of a fine plant bearing no fewer than twenty-nine flowers (O.R., xi. 
p- 63). The second parent, L. Rossiana, it may be remembered, also 
appeared in this collection, and was described at page 239 of our first 
volume as a yellow Lycaste allied to L. cruenta, Lind]., but differing in the 
details of the lip and in having some hairs on the crest. Messrs. Sander’s 
plant had cream white sepals and petals, dotted with rose below, and the 
lip yellow with a claret-coloured base. By some inadvertence the plant 
was exhibited as L. Janet Ross, and has been so recorded, with the name 
i. p. 158), which is erroneous. 
A.R. 
LYCASTE: JANET: 
L. Janete as a synonym (G.C., 1915, 
