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died. Lord Aylesford wrote to his solicitor alleging culpable negligence on 
plaintiffs part, and that an Orchid specialist had recommended that the ° 
entire charge of the Orchids should be taken out of his hands. Witness 
was not was paid the wages of an Orchid specialist. He did not think {1 
per week were the wages of an Orchid specialist. He believed he had had 
as much experience in Orchids as the gardener at Lord Aylesford’s. He had 
tried to please her ladyship, but had failed. Orchids were the same as other. 
plants—they sometimes died. 
_. Lady Aylesford, on being called, alleged that plaintiff left the ventilators 
open on a frosty night, and it was chiefly owing to his negligence that the 
Orchids died. 
-A sub-agent in the employ of Lord Aylesford admitted that his lordship 
had had two head gardeners in six months. 
Mr. H. A. Burberry, of King’s Heath, gave expert evidence, and said 
that when he examined the Orchids in March they were in poor condition, 
but that might have been due to negligence prior to November, when 
plaintiff was first engaged. 
His Honour found for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, and the 
counterclaim was dismissed with costs. 
HYBRID EPIDENDRUMS. 
WE recently had in these pages a very interesting article by Mr. E. O. 
Orpet (p. 103) in which some hybrid Epidendrums were mentioned. Sketches 
(single flowers) of four interesting forms raised by Mr. Orpet are given by 
Mr. Oakes Ames in arecent issue of American Gardening (1901, p. 331, 
fig. 71), together with E. radicans for comparison. Two forms are derived 
from E. x O’Brienianum crossed with E. elongatum, and are said not to be 
intermediate, but in a general way to approach E. radicans, which suggests 
that they may be only reversionary seedling varieties of E. radicans. There 
is no note of the colour, but so far as shape is concerned one seems nearest 
_ to E. elongatum in shape, though the other does seem near to E. radicans | 
Another j is said to be from E. cinnabarinum X radicans, and seems to be a 
true hybrid, though there are spots on the sepals and petals of a deeper 
; shade than the general colour which are difficult to account for. The lip is 
lighter orange-yellow than in E. radicans, with the divisions more laciniated. 
Another is said to be from Sophronitis violacea X E. X O’Brienianum, and 
is richer in colour than the usual forms of the latter, though whether this 
-€omes from the Sophronitis is hard to say, as the general tendency of all the 
_ Parts is toward the Epidendrum parent. This remark however might be 
_ Made respecting the other known Epiphronitis, and yet the Sophronitis was 
ah the seed parent, as seems to have been the case with the present one, so that 
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