164 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Fine examples of the beautiful Dendrobium Falconeri are sent from’ the 
collection of F. M. Burton, Esq., Highfield, Gainsborough, by Mr. Milburn. 
It was bought as an imported plant three years ago, and flowers freely every 
year. In its dwarf branching habit it differs greatly from its allies. 
This species does not appear to have been used much by hybridists, 
though intercrossed with D. nobile it has yielded one of the finest hybrids 
in existence, namely, D. x Venus, of which an excellent example is sent 
from the collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq. 
A photograph, sent by Mr. A. Griesson, of Calcutta, shows the interior 
of one of the Orchid houses in Mr. P. S. Chattergee’s Nursery at Calcutta. 
‘* Although a native,” Mr. Griessen remarks, “he keeps up the place quite in 
European fashion. He has travelled across Europe with Mr. Binot, and no 
doubt took many interesting notes. He exports every year a considerable 
number of plants to England, mostly Himalayan kinds, and has also an 
interesting private collection, which contains ro hybrids, that branch of 
the business not having yet extended so far.” The photograph shows a 
house built on modern principles, in which a number of good Phalznopsis 
and a few other things are arranged with graceful foliage plants on either 
side of the pathway, while Oncidium luridum in bud, a fine flowering 
specimen of Dendrobium aggregatum, and a few others, are suspended from 
the roof. These details come out very clearly in the photograph. 
HYBRIDISATION RECORDS. 
A PARAGRAPH referring to some Cypripediums offered for sale in my 
Orchid list for January last, appeared in the ORcHID Review for May 
(p- 132). Your correspondent appears to doubt the possibility of there 
being such crosses as he referred to, and I therefore wish to dispel his 
evident reluctance to believe that the plants are genuine. If your corres- 
pondent doubts the existence of such crosses simply because he has no 
record that they are in existence, I beg to inform him that I have been a 
raiser of Orchids—Cypripediums especially—for close on twenty years, and 
I can produce a record of fully two hundred crosses of Cypripediums raised 
by me in conjunction with my late employer, who, for reasons of his own, 
caused by the indifferent treatment he has received from those who consider 
themselves purveyors of horticultural knowledge, declines to enter into 
present publicity with his plants, excepting through me. What would 
your correspondent say if he was shown flowered examples of Cypripedium 
Stonei X Fairrieanum, C. Niobe x Fairrieanum, Selenipedium Lindley- 
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