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at once on the same raceme is seldom more than two, and never exceeds g 
four, though the old pedicels sometimes number as many as eighteen. The 
idea that all the flowers were expanded together seems to have originated 
in the exhibition at the Sale Rooms of some dried specimens in which a 
flower had been ingeniously strapped down opposite every one of the old 
pedicels by the enterprising (?) collector. Unfortunately, one of these 
misleading specimens was used as an illustration (Veitch Man. Orch., v., p. 58) 
and thus serves, though unintentionally, to perpetuate the error. It would 
be interesting to know how many flowers were produced by the raceme 
cut off at the end of 103 months, which might give a clue to the age of 
those producing eighteen flowers.—Ep.] 
IS VANDA TERES A GOOD SEED BEARER? 
I HAVE recently made a series of experiments to ascertain the value of 
Vanda teres as a seed bearer. During April last I made 26 successive 
crosses between Vanda teres and several other plants, as Renanthera 
coccinea, Stauropsis fasciata, and various Vandas, etc., but while 
making Vanda teres the seed parent my attempts were invariably — 
unsatisfactory. At first I thought that it might be due to some cause 
reverse way and having proved successful, I came to the conclusion that 4 
V. teres must be a rather delicate species to be selected as seed parent. It 
ought to be mentioned that all our plants are well established and were 
not touched until I gave up my experiment. We have a few pods on it, 
but all are the result of self-fertilization. The crosses, as Renanthera 
coccinea, were tried eight times in succession, and all proved failures, but 
the reverse crosses took with the utmost satisfaction. It is not my first 
experience with the subject, having experienced the same failure at Kew 
during 1897, while I was in charge of the collection. I should be glad if a 
some of our friends of the Review can throw a little light on the subject. — 
Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. A. E. P. GRIESSEN. 
[The only hybrid from V. teres which we know of is V. xX Miss 
Joaquim (O.R., i. p. 245), which was raised at Singapore by the lady whose 
name it bears, but it is not stated whether V. teres or V. Hookeriana was 
Unsuccessful experiments are often not recorded, but cases like the present 
are interesting, and we should like to have further details.—Ep.} 
