318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
CATTLEYA INTERMEDIA (double).—Rev. Hort., Sept. 1, p. 404, fig. 141. 
CaTTLEYA SKINNERI, Lindl.—Rev. Hort. Belge, Sept., p. 201, with 
plate. 
DENDROBIUM HOOKERIANUM.—Journ. of Hort., Sept. 3, p. 221, fig. 44. 
DENDROBIUM LEoNIs, Rchb. f.—Bot. Mag., t. 7493. 
LALIA CRISPA SUPERBA.—Journ. of Hort., Aug. 27, p. 197, fig. 40. 
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HYBRIDS BETWEEN CYPRIPEDIUM AND 
SELENIPEDIUM. 
Mr. Hanson has written me respecting my crosses between the genera 
Selenipedium and Cypripedium for his Supplement, so, thinking it may be 
of some interest to your readers and lovers of these favourite flowers, I send 
you briefly a copy of what I said I had written in one of your issues, that I 
had plants up between S. Schlimii (seed parent) and C. Spicerianum (pollen 
parent). These are growing away well, and now have two or three pairs of 
leaves. Also the reverse cross was tried, but the seed pod of this latter was 
not ripe when plants of the former were up ; and even when sown, did not 
grow. But I think I have established a “record time” in the following 
cross, made between S. X Dominianum as seed parent and C. Chamber- 
lainianum as pollen parent. This was hybridised in December, 1895; the 
pod was ripe in March of this year; the seed was sown immediately, and 
now, in September, nine months after hybridising, I have strong young 
plants, some with leaves 4} inches long, and of a Selenipedium character. 
The reverse cross of this also did not germinate. Whether the cross 
between these two genera will ever be got to flower remains to be seen. 
. W. SWINBURNE. 
Corndean Hall, ig tak cone 
Winchcombe, 
Cheltenham. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THERE was a good display of Orchids at the Royal Horticultural Society's 
Meeting at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on September 8th 
last, and three First-class Certificates were awarded. One of the most 
interesting features was an exhibit of two plants of Cattleya x Hardyan’ 
artificially raised, the first which have reached the flowering stage, from 
the collection of Norman C, Cookson, Esq. 
