138 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
a very small plant. The ground-colour is clear light yellow, with two very 
large irregular deep chestnut blotches on the sepals, one on the lip, and 
a few small ones on the petals. There are also a very good heavily-marked 
form of O. X Andersonianum, and a beautiful clearly-marked form of O. 
crispum allied to var. Cooksoni. The remainder include good forms of O. 
triumphans, crispum, cirrhosum, nebulosum, Rossii, and Cervantesii, and 
afford an indication of the beauty of the collection at the present time, and 
the care bestowed on its culture. 
THE RAISING OF ORCHID SEEDLINGS. 
By R. EIcHeE , Bradford. 
(Concluded from page 116.) 
SOPHRONITIS grandiflora has been successfully crossed with Cattleya 
intermedia, yielding Sophro-cattleya x Batemaniana; with C. Harrisoniana, 
yielding S.-c. x Calypso; with C. Bowringiana, yielding S.-c. x eximia; and 
with Lelia pumila, yielding Sophro-lelia x lta. The colour imparted to 
these hybrids is very marked indeed, and if intercrossed with the labiata 
section of Cattleya, the result would be glorious and worth all the trouble 
and disappointments which one is sure to encounter with these seedlings. 
A few years ago I managed to raise a beautiful lot of seedlings of Cattleya 
Dowiana aurea x Sophronitis grandiflora, one of the finest crosses 
imaginable, which I prized very much, but through the folly of one of the 
men and bad management every seedling was lost. My experience leads 
me to think that Sophronitis is better adapted as pollen than seed-parent, 
and in every instance it is advisable to use it as such. Most of the existing 
hybrids so far recorded have Sophronitis for their pollen parent. 
Phalznopses are not good subjects for hybridising. In the first place, 
_ the seeds are very small and most difficult to induce to germinate; and, 
secondly, the seedlings are very subject to damping off when in a young 
state. Nine years ago Mr. Collier, gardener to the late Mr. G. F irth, who 
had one of the finest collections of Phalznopsis, obtained seedlings of 
P. Schilleriana x P, Stuartiana, which were growing on the raft of the 
parent plant, but the fog during winter time proved too much for them, and 
they disappeared, much to the chagrin of both the employer and his 
gardener. The ideal seed-bed for Phalznopses is a rough cut teak raft’ 
well seasoned and without knots, and the young seedlings, after passing 
through the first year’s struggle, grow fast apace. P. x Ariadne 
(P. Aphrodite x P, Stuartiana) reached the flowering stage in five years. 
In their native habitat they appear to cross readily, as evinced by P. X 
