THE ORCHID REVIEW. 17 
CATTLEYA x VICTORIA-REGINA. 
Ir is with particular pleasure that we present our readers with a correct 
figure of the beautiful Cattleya x Victoria-Regina, reproduced from a 
photograph of the plant in the collection of W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton 
Grange, Stone, Staff., which was kindly taken for us by that gentleman’s 
able gardener, Mr. Walter Stevens, and which, we may add, does him equal 
Fig, 1. CAYTLEYA X%. VICTORIA-REGINA. 
credit both in the capacity of gardener and of amateur photographer. 
The history of the plant will be familiar to our readers, having been given 
in detail in our last volume. An objection has been taken to our theory of 
its being a natural hybrid, on the ground that neither flower, bulb, leaf, 
growth, nor season of blooming, lend any support to it, but the publication 
of the present figure will effectually dispose of the objection. It is well 
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