THE ORCHID REVIEW. 24t 
CATTLEYA x HARDYANA. 
THE subject of our present illustration is the beautiful Cattleya x 
Hardyana, the most handsome natural hybrid known, which will soon be 
in flower in various collections. It originally appeared in 1885, in the 
collection of the late G. Hardy, Esq., of Timperley, and quite unexpectedly, 
having flowered out of an importation of C. Dowiana aurea and C. 
Warscewiczii; and its hybrid origin was at once apparent. The flower 
distinctly combines the characters of the two parents, though it is most 
like C. Warscewiczii in coloar, but with the addition of some golden 
veining in the throat, derived from C. Dowiana. 
Fig. 13. CATTLEYA X HARDYANA. 
The history of the plant was given in 1885 by Mr. W. Swan, of 
Fallowfield (Gard. Chron., 1885, xxiv., p- 206), and may ai _. a 
marised as follows :<The plant was imported about five years ee pig 
and was purchased for Mr. Hardy by another grower, when buying : lo 
for himself, as C. Sanderiana. However, in a couple of years it opene a 
first Blogins. wien at was plain to the owner that a fresh form had Seer ts 
This -was-ih 1883, and in the two succeeding years It again bloomed, on 
