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giganteum, Phalznopsis amabilis, rosea, and intermedia, Saccolabium 
miniatum, Spathoglottis aurea, and Stauropsis gigantea. To these must be 
added consignments of many previously known species. Much of the 
territory visited by Lobb was virgin soil, and few collectors have enriched 
European gardens with such a multitude of beautiful Indo-Malayan Orchids. 
It was in April, 1853, that Mr. James Veitch moved to London, when 
he acquired the old-established Exotic Nursery of Messrs. Knight & Perry, 
in the King’s Road, Chelsea, which was ‘then remodelled and improved. 
Twelve years later he took his two sons, John Gould Veitch and Harry J. 
Veitch, into partnership, thus establishing the business of Messrs James 
Veitch & Sons. | 
Just before leaving Exeter, experiments were commenced which have 
had far-reaching results. It was about the year 1853 that Mr. John 
Dominy, one of Mr. Veitch’s foremen, acting on the advice of Mr. John 
Harris, a surgeon of Exeter, began to make experiments in hybridising 
Orchids, beginning, it is said, with the genus Cattleya. It was, however, a 
Calanthe that first reached the flowering stage, in October, 1856, and 
opened a new chapter in the annals of Orchidology. A flower was 
immediately taken to Dr. Lindley, who is said to have exclaimed at the 
sight, ‘‘ Why, you will drive the botanists mad.” He himself seems to 
have received a shock, forit was not till nearly fifteen months later that he 
recorded the event. Writing in January, 1858, he remarked: ‘‘ On. the 
25th October 1856, Mr. James Veitch, junr., of the Ff xotic Nursery, Chelsea, 
brought to the writer of this memorandum a flower of a Calanthe which 
combined ‘the peculiar hairy forked spur and deeply lobed lip of the white 
Calanthe furcata with the violet colour and broad middle lobe of the lip of 
C. Masuca. One might have said that the flowers were just intermediate 
between the two. . . .. It appears that it had been raised in. the 
Exotic Nursery by Mr. Dominy, Messrs. Veitch’s indefatigable and very 
intelligent foreman, between C. Masuca and C. furcata. The seed was 
obtained in 1854 by crossing these two species, was.immediately sown, and 
in two years the seedlings were in flower. . .. . We, therefore, propose, 
with much pleasure, that the name of the hybrid be Calanthe Dominii, in 
order to put upon record the name of the first man who succeeded 
in the operation. He is indeed specially entitled to the distinction, not 
only in consequence of having produced other Orchidaceous mules, among 
which we understand are Cattleyas, but because of his eminent success in 
raising such plants from seed as a matter of horticultural business.” 
This marked the commencement of a new industry, and in order to 
show how completely it was initiated. by Messrs. Veitch it may be 
mentioned that it was not until fifteen years later—when about sixteen 
distinct hybrids, belonging to various genera, had been recorded—that a 
