*48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Australia. ... The flowers measured 5A inches across, which is 

 equal to the standard in point of size ? . . . 



" Returning to Mr. Goodwin's work, I am glad to hear that he is 

 working at Cattleya and Laelia hybrids, also at Cypripedium, Zygopetalum, 

 Lycaste, Dendrobium and Phaius." 



" Mr. Hugh Dixson, also one of our Members, has obtained good results 

 with Dendrobium bigibbum (an Australian species), Phaius and Spathoglottis ; 

 while Mr. Williams, gardener to Mr. Onslow, of Camden Park, has done 

 good work with Vanda teres and several Cypripediums. Mr. D'Arcey, 

 Orchid grower at the Botanic Gardens, has experimented with Cattleya, 

 Laelia and Cypripedium; while Mr. Hazlewood, of Botany, is another 

 experimenter with Orchids." 



Speaking of Hybridisation generally, Mr. Maiden remarks :— " Many 

 successful variations are not the result of experiment but of accident. An 

 observant man making his rounds through his garden has acquired fame, 

 and sometimes fortune, by observing peculiarities in the growth of self- 

 sown seedlings, fertilised without human aid." 



Vanilla in Australia.— At an earlier meeting, we learn that " Mr. 

 R. T. Baker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Hugh Dixson, specimens of Vanilla 

 (Vanilla planifolia, Andr.) grown by that gentleman at his private residence 

 at Summer Hill, near Sydney. The pods appeared to have been quite 

 successfully cured, as they possess all the characteristics of the commercial 

 article, and the aroma and shining surface in no way seemed to differ from 

 those of the true Mexican Vanilla. One vine yielded about 50 pods."-Pm, 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales., xxvi. 



SOPHROCATTLEYA x HARDYANA. 



Another seedling of the pretty little Sophrocattleya X Hardyana is sent 

 from the collection of F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, by 

 Mr. Stafford, which is so different from the one figured at page 209 

 of our seventh volume, that at first it was thought to be something else, 

 hough it bore the record S. grandiflora x C. Aclandia,. It has a strongly 

 three-lobed lip, and the short rounded side lobes give it almost the typical 

 Aclandue shape, while the widely spreading sepals and petals also rather 

 approximate to this parent. The ground colour is yellowish, with a 

 sunusion of purple-being a modification of the colour of the Sophronitis 



JrnTrr f a i e T PUrP i e ?° tS ' WhlCh Sh ° W thG Aclandi - influence - The 

 front lobe of the lip and the column are bright purple. The flower is just 

 •under three inches across and is probably not fully developed. 



