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hybrid appears to be intermediate, and in a few cases the hybrid is different 
from either parent, and perhaps a reversion. These exceptional cases 
have not yet been fully worked out. 
Mr. Hurst illustrated his lecture with examples of peas, palm and fern 
leaved Primulas, two remarkably diverse forms of Paphiopedilum x Hera, 
with some photographs (See O.R. xi., pp. 71-73), and some illustrations 
drawn from the animal kingdom. An interesting discussion followed. 
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HYBRID ORCHIDS. 
A LECTURE on Hybrid Orchids, by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, was 
announced as the subject for the meeting of the Horticultural Club, held 
at the Hotel Windsor on March 2oth. Sir John T. D. Llewelyn presided, 
and there were forty-five present, including a number of guests from the 
R.H.S. Orchid Committee and other Orchidists. After dinner, Mr. H. J. 
Chapman, Mr. Cookson’s able gardener, exhibited an instructive series of 
about 150 lantern slides of hybrid Orchids and their parents, with a 
number of choice varieties. They consisted of photographs taken by Mr. 
Chapman, and then hand-coloured with aniline dyes, giving a most 
tealistic effect, the most perfect, probably being a large specimen plant of 
Dendrobium Falconeri, crowded with flowers, in which the effect of light 
and shade, enhanced by its natural colours, was most realistic. Some of 
the Od gl Cypripedi Phaius, forms of Lelia anceps, and 
others, were also rematGubly good. In some cases flowers of the parents 
appeared on the same slide as the hybrid,—the most notable being that of 
the remarkable Odontioda X Vuylstekez with its parents—in others they 
were separate, when the parents were first shown and then the resulting 
hybrid. The series included Phaius simulans, P. Sanderianus, with the 
resulting hybrid P. x Norman, these, with forms abe Pi x Chapmanii, si 
greatly admired. The app of Cypripedi i which, 
its natural colours, elicited a round of Siiclinibs was followed by * 
Spicerianum, with their hybrid C. xX Niobe, and the secondary hybrid 
C. X Norma. Then came C. callosum and C. X Juno, one of the best 
Fairrieanum hybrids yet raised. Some interesting Cattleyas and Lzelio- 
cattleyas followed, with Dendrobi Od gl x Wilckeanum, x 
Rolfez, fine forms of crispum, including O. c. Harold, with very broad 
segments, making the flowers eee as —— as a penny” tinsel Mr. 
Chapman considered to be his best p g Ph 
Cymbidiums, Calanthes, and athens: wade in Mr. Cookson’s Orchid 
houses, and particularly a very fine group of Odontoglossums were also 
much admired. 
In the discussion which followed, Mr. Cookson alluded to some of the 
