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(O.R., vii. pp. 73, 135), and of which we received six splendid inflorescences 
four years later , showing great variation in colour (O.R., xi. p- 134). He 
had also a fine collection of herbaceous and hardy plants, including many 
which he had himself collected during his travels. 
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THE HYBRIDIST. 
ONcIDIODA Cookson1#.—We have received from Mr. H. J. Chapman, 
gardener to Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, a flower of 
a very striking hybrid derived from Cochlioda Neetzliana crossed with the 
pollen of Oncidium macranthum. The plant is very small, and at present 
only bears a spike of three flowers. The flower sent most resembles the 
Cochlioda parent, both in shape and colour, but is much enlarged, 
measuring just over two inches from tip to tip of the petals, while the 
influence of the Oncidinm parent is distinctly seen in the shape of the 
sepals and petals, in the crest of the lip, and in the way the column 
diverges from the base of the lip. The sepals and petals are uniformly deep 
crimson in colour, and the front lobe of the lip rather paler, with a light 
apex and a deeper'yellow crest.. As regards shape, we may add that the 
segments are spreading or slightly reflexed; the dorsal sepal broadly 
elliptical, and the lateral pair rather longer and shortly stalked; the petals. 
larger and more ovate, and the lip strongly three-lobed, with spreading 
oblong side lobes and a broader front lobe. The crest of the lip consists of 
seven acute teeth, and the column wings are broadly auriculate. It is a 
remarkable hybrid, and should develop into a handsome thing when the 
plant becomes strong. 
Use oF MIxED PoLLEN.—We have. been asked whether the use of 
mixed pollen, that is pollen derived from different varieties of the same 
species, is likely to result in an increased amount of variation in the -result- 
ing batch of seedlings. It is difficult to say absolutely, but it is at least 
possible that increased variation might result. If the pollen tubes descended 
the tissues of the styles together, and each fertilised a few ovules, which 
subsequently matured and germinated, one would expect to obtain the 
‘Same varieties as if the seeds were borne by different capsules on the same 
plant. But it is by no means certain that events would follow the desired 
course, and in any case one would have to preserve every seedling from the 
batch in order to ensure every possible variation. On the whole we should 
deprecate such experiments, at all events from a practical standpoint, and 
should prefer that every cross should be undertaken separately, and with 
some definite object in view. The use of pollen from different species would 
be still more uncertain, and from the difficulty of subsequently identifying 
the seedlings is to be strongly deprecated. 
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