324 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A considerable amount of hybridising is done in the collection, and Mr. 
Stafford showed us a house full of healthy little seedlings in various stages, 
including many choice crosses. 
The Cattleya group is represented by healthy little plants which could 
be counted by hundreds, and include such choice crosses as Lelia 
tenebrosa X Cattleya aurea, Sophronitis grandiflora x C. Warscewiczii, 
and S. grandiflora x L. Dayana, the latter being good sized plants. We 
could have made a long list had time permitted. 
The Cypripedium group was, as usual, well represented, the majority 
being choice combinations, such as C. bellatulum x insigne Sandere, a few 
‘mice little plants, C. bellatulum album x callosum Sander, small 
seedlings, C. ciliolare x bellatulum, C. Charlesworthii x Morganize 
burfordiense, a nice batch of seedlings, all having variegated foliage, 
C. x Gowerianum magnificum x bellatulum, &c. There were also nice 
seedlings derived from C. Charlesworthij X bellatulum, whose flowering is 
awaited with interest, because of the fact that these two plants are known 
to grow together in a wild state. 
Other genera are also represented, and among them we must mention a 
nice lot of Dendrobiums, the large ones of which were suspended in another 
house, and growing in the most robust manner. It may be added that 
Mr. Stafford’s experience with D. Wardianum agrees with that of those 
hybridists who have failed to get good capsules on it. 
A few seedlings have already flowered, and the next few years should 
see a considerable accession to the ranks, both of flowered and unflowered 
seedlings, as the work is being prosecuted with energy and success. Much 
care is also taken in selecting combinations which are likely to yield good 
results, itself a rather important matter. It is certainly, at the present, not 
worth while crossing promiscuously, for a good deal of patience has to be 
exercised in awaiting the results. Of course one cannot always foresee 
what the result of a cross will be, but there are now plenty of examples as 
to what to seek and what to avoid, and Mr. Hardy and his able gardener, 
Mr. Stafford, have set about the work in a way that at all events deserves 
success. The results must be left for the future to reveal. 
SKETCHES vy. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. — ‘“‘ Those who have 
studied the astonishing cuts called diagrammatic representations, the counter- 
parts of which they vainly search for in nature, will be strongly in favour 
of any method which reproduces an object so that it can be recognised, and 
the tendency of the art of the present day seems to be in this direction,” — 
American M. onthly Microscopic Journal, 
