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loam fit for the purpose can be obtained from Malton, in Yorkshire. The 
young seedlings are very subject to damping off, especially during the 
winter time. Careful watering and attention is absolutely necessary. 
Odontoglossums are most difficult to raise from seed; the first 
artificially raised plant from seed recorded is O. X Leroyanum, vide O.R., 
Vol. I., page 204, raised by M. Leroy, gardener to Baron E. de Rothschild, 
Armainvilliers, near Gretz, France. While on a visit to these famous 
gardens in 1889 I had the privilege to see these tiny seedlings, seven in 
number, I believe, growing in the nicks of Paris stone, a soft porous stone 
almost like tufa. I had a pleasant chat with M. Jacques, chef de cultures, 
respecting these seedings, and gained a great deal of information. They 
germinated in a Cool house, and seemed quite happy. To Messrs. Veitch 
belongs the honour of flowering the first artificially raised hybrid 
Odontoglossum in this country, O. xX excellens, and Mr. N. C. Cookson 
recently exhibited a hybrid of O. Hallii, O. x crispo-Hallii. Odontoglossum 
seed has been sown by many and in various ways, but without much 
success. A friend of mine gave me once a pod of O. Uro-Skinneri X O. 
Harryanum, well ripened in the country, and with apparently good seed, 
but no progeny has appeared, and is not likely to appear now; possibly 
some more successful raiser will give his experience, for which every Orchid 
grower would be grateful. Odontoglossums intercross readily in their native 
habitat, more so than any other genus. Why should they not be produced 
from seed in this country ? 
(To be continued.) 
SACCOLABIUM BARBEY. 
SACCOLABIUM Barbeye was described about a year ago by Dr. Kranzlin 
(Bull. Herb. Botss., 1V., p. 40), from a specimen which flowered in the collec- 
tion of Madame Barbey-Boissier, La Pierriére, Switzerland. It had been 
received from the Congo. An authentic specimen sent to Kew by Mr. James 
O’Brien shows it to be nothing else but the old Angraecum imbricatum, 
Lindl., which has long been known in gardens, though not being showy, it 
is somewhat rare. It is a climbing species, with ovate-oblong bilobed leaves, 
and short axillary racemes of distichous closely imbricating bracts, and 
greenish white flowers with a recurved clavate spur. It is found in several 
localities in West Africa. Barter, who collected it at Onitscha on the river 
Niger, records it as abundant on the lower parts of the river; the flowers 
white, inconspicuous, and very fragrant, adding that “on still nights the river 
resembles a close Orchid-house with Cymbidium sinense in flower.” _ 
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