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good Odontoglossum crispum, Brassocatlelia Veitchii, Cattleya x Dussel- 
dorfii Undine and C. Mendelii. 
Messrs. W. Cutbush & Sons, Highgate, exhibited two interesting hybrid 
Cypripediums, obtained from. C. Calceolus X macranthum and from C. 
montanum xX parviflorum. They also showed a number of C. Regine, C. 
macranthum, C. Thunbergil, and C. Calceolus among other things on a 
rock garden outside. 
A number of hardy Cypripediums, Orchis foliosa, and various other 
species of Orchis and Ophrys were scattered about in the various groups of 
herbaceous and rock plants staged in another long tent, where Messrs. 
Whitelegge & Page, Chislehurst, included about three dozen Odonto- 
glossums, those noted being O. crispum, triumphans, nevium, polyxanthum, 
sceptrum, X Wilckeanum, X Andersonianum and X Adriane. 
OBITUARY. 
GEORGES MANTIN.—We regret to hear of the death of M. G. Mantin, 
Chateau de Bel Air, Olivet, France, which took place at Nice on April 28th 
last. M. Mantin, who was in his 60th year, has been a grower of Orchids 
for rhany years, and at one time paid great attention to hybridisation. We do 
not remember any particular account of his work, though his hybrids are 
enumerated in the Orchid Stud-Book, and his name will long be remembered 
as the raiser of the beautiful Cattleya x Mantiniil, a hybrid from C. 
Bowringiana ? and C. Dowiana aurea g, which was described at page 365 
of our second volume from photographs communicated by him. The cross 
was made in 1889. On the same date that this plant was exhibited at Paris 
about half-a-dozen of his hybrid Cypripedes were also exhibited, this genus 
being one to which he paid tnuch attention. Of other genera we may men- 
tion the following: In 1895 we find Leliocattleya aurelianensis, raised from 
L.-c. Schilleriana X C. Leopoldi, and in 1896 L.-c. belairensis from C. 
Bowringiana X L. autumnalis, and Stanhopea x bellaerensis, from S. 
insignis X oculata. In 1897 we find Cattleya xX Chesnelliana from C. 
bicolor X Bowringiana, C. X olivetensis, from C. Loddigesii X maxima, 
C. xX Heloisiz from C. Mossiz X Forbesii, Leliocattleya olivetensis from 
L. purpurata x C. Forbesii, Epilelia belairensis, from L. autumnalis xX 
E. ciliare, and E.-l. Margarite, from L. grandis X E. Parkinsonianum. In 
1898 were added Lelia x Mantinii, from L. purpurata X grandis, Lelio- 
cattleya La-France, from C. bicolor and L. tenebrosa, and Brassocattleya 
belairensis from Brassavola Perrinii x Cattleya Leopoldi. In 1gor we find 
Dendrobium x Mantinii recorded as derived from D. nobile and D. 
fimbriatum, and said to be the first French hybrid Dendrobium. Many 
other hybrids were raised, but we have omitted those which proved to be 
forms of earlier hybrids, as well as the numerous Cypripedes raised in the 
