THE ORCHID .REVIEW. (MARCH, 1915. 
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YYCASTE Skinneri is one of the best known and, when well grown, one 
of the handsomest of garden Orchids, and some of its hybrids partake 
largely of its own attractive character. The annexed figure represents 
a very floriferous and brilliantly-coloured hybrid between it and L. 
amacrophylla, for which Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. received from the R.H.S. 
Fig. 8. LycasTE BALLiz. 
-a First-class Certificate in January, 1903. The plant bears no fewer than 
thirteen flowers from a single pseudobulb. Our first knowledge of this hybrid 
was the receipt, in January, 1896, of a flower from the collection of G.- 
Shorland Ball, Esq., with this record, at which time we referred it some- 
~what doubtfully to the earlier L. schcenbrunnensis (O.R., iv: p. 49): The 
latter was raised in the collection of the Emperor of Austria, at Schroenbrunn, 
near Vienna, and was described at page 51 of our first volume, when the 
parents were suggested as L. Skinneri and L. Schilleriana, there being @ 
-doubt about the second one. Mr. Ball’s plant, however, proved distinct, 
