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to know if this is still the case, as it is a matter for regret that so little 
should be known of so handsome a plant. 
One hybrid from it has been raised, namely, the beautiful Lzlio-cattleya 
X Baroness Schréder (Cattleya Triane @ X Lelia Jongheana 3), which 
was raised in the rich collection at The Dell, Egham, and received a 
First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society on August 23rd, 
1892. 
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. 
UnpeR this title we recorded at.page 180 an experiment which Mr. T. L. 
Mead is making at his home in Oviedo, Florida, in raising seedling Orchids. 
Mr. Mead now sends us a further note :—‘‘ The season has been a trying 
one, with extremes of heat and wet and drought, and though my Orchid 
eyrie in the live oak top promised great success in June, it was very difficult 
to keep the compost in good condition during the hot muggy days of July. 
Still, out of thirty-two crosses planted on a space of peat sixteen inches long 
by twelve broad I obtained plants having first leaf of twenty-two of them— 
mostly Cattleyas and Lzlias—though a good many died when it was neces- 
sary to transplant them, on account of mould and alge threatening to swamp 
the tiny plants. A single plant of Vanda ccerulea ¢ X V. Amesiana $ 
appeared, and is now showing its third leaf. This year I have repeated the 
cross Bletia verecunda @ x Schomburgkia tibicinis ¢, and have several 
plants in their first leaf, and also one or two of Bletia verecunda crossed 
with our native Calopagon pulchellus.” 
We shall be glad to hear from time to time of the progress of these 
interesting experiments, as also of those which any other of our readers have 
made. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X SCHOFIELDIANUM.—Journ. of Hort., July 30, p- 10% 
fig. 19. : 
DENDROBIUM sPECIosISsimuM, Rolfe.—Gard. Mag., Aug. 15, P- 55% 
with fig. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X ANDREANA.—Rev. Hort., July 16, p. 328, with 
plate. 
MILToNIA sp.—Gard. Chron., Aug. 8, pp: 158, 159, fig. 29. This is M. 
flavescens, Lindl. 
OpontocLossum GaLEOTTIANUM.—Gard. Chron., Aug. 8, p. 158; fig. 28. 
SARCOCHILUS HAINANENSIS, Rolfe.—Bot. Mag., t. 7489. 
