44 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDISATION CONFERENCE. 
FURTHER particulars of the International Conference on Hybridisation and 
Cross-breeding are given in the Royal Horticultural Society’s arrangements 
for 1899. The first day’s meeting will be held at the Society’s Gardens at 
Chiswick, on Tuesday, July 11th. All plant-growers, whether amateurs oF 
nurserymen, are particularly requested to exhibit hybrid or cross-bred 
plants (whether int bloom or not), with their parents, and a written account 
of their origin, also graft hybrids, at this meeting. All piants should arrive 
at the Gardens at or before 11.30 a.m., and may be removed at 5 p-™. 
Other plants specially submitted for certificates may also be staged, but no 
groups or miscellaneous exhibits will be admitted. The Orchid and other 
Committees will meet at 12 o’clock, noon. At 12.45 the President, 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., will receive the invited members of the 
Conference, who will afterwards be entertained at luncheon. At 2.15 the @ 
Conference will commence, with some introductory observations by the 
chairman, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., after which the following four 
papers will be read :—‘‘ Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of 
Scientific Investigation,’ by W. Bateson, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Cambridge; 
‘‘ Hybridisation—its successes and failures,” by the Rev. Prof. Henslow, 
M.A., V.M.H., London; “The Stability of Hybrids,” by Prof. Hugo de 
Fries, Amsterdam; and ‘ Progress of Hybridisation in the United States,” 
by Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University. At 5 p.m. the Conference 
will adjourn, and at 6, for 6.30 p.m., the foreign members of the Conference 
will be entertained at dinner on the kind invitation of the Horticultural 
Club, under the presidency of Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, Bart., M.P., at the — 
Hotel Windsor, Victoria Street. 
On Wednesday, July 12th, the Conference will be continued at 117; 
Victoria Street, S.W., at 2.15 p.m., and, after some introductory observations 
by Dr. W. P. Focke, of Bremen, the Chairman of the day, papers on various 
subjects will be read, including one on Hybrid and Cross-bred Orchids, 
by Norman C. Cookson, Esq., F.R.H.S. The Conference will adjour® 
at 5 p.m., after which the Society’s distinguished foreign guests will be 
entertained at a banquet at the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole, 
at 6.30 for 7 p.m., under the Chairmanship of Sir-Trevor Lawrence, Bart 
All persons interested in Hybridisation, or in cross-breeding, af 
requested to assist by every means in their power, and are invited to se? 
written information in the form of short notes for publication in the 
Report of the Conference, or otherwise. All interested are invited, but — 
special invitation has been sent to many well-known Hybridists and 
Botanists, whose names, to the number of one hundred 
, are appended 10 — 
the programme. , a 
