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VoL. XIX.]| NOVEMBER, trott. 
[No. 227. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
A REMARKABLE and very beautiful hybrid was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting held on October 24th by Sir George L. Holford, under the name of 
Leliocattleya luminosa aurea, to which a_ First-class Certificate was 
awarded. It was raised from Lelia tenebrosa Walton Grange var. crossed 
with the pollen of Cattleya Dowiana aurea, and differs from the typical 
L.-c. luminosa in having clear deep primrose yellow sepals and petals, as in 
the seed parent. It is very interesting to find the yellow colour carried on 
to the next generation, as the fact may be of importance in connection with 
the origin of the much-wanted race of yellow Cattleyas. C. Dowiana has. 
hitherto been very disappointing in this respect, as most of its hybrids have 
pink or rose-coloured sepals and petals, and the species itself has frequently 
a mottling of red. Possibly the red was absent from the form used on this 
occasion, but if this was the case it does not explain much, for such a form - 
must frequently have been used before, though not often in conjunction 
with another parent having clear yellow sepals and petals. It will be 
interesting to see if other seedlings from the same batch agree in this: 
essential character. 
We are asked whether, on grounds of priority, this plant should not have 
been called Lzliocattleya Truffautiana aurea, and the answer appears to be 
in the affirmative, though the question is not without difficulty, as we 
pointed out soon after the plants originally appeared (O. R., x. p. 152). 
Leliocattleya Truffautiana was raised by M. Ch. Maron, and was exhibited 
by him in Paris, on October roth, rgo1, and duly recorded. On November 
12th following a hybrid of the same parentage was exhibited by Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., in London, as L.-c. luminosa, and M. Maron at once 
protested against the change of name. Then we were informed that Messrs. 
Charlesworth’s plant was exhibited at the Chrysanthemum Show of the 
Manchester Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society.in the autumn of 
1g00, and received a First-class Certificate. We looked: up the report of 
the meeting in two horticultural papers without finding the plant men- 
tioned, and then wrote to the Secretary, who replied that he could not find. 
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