118 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (APRIL, 1906. 
Cypripediums on Cypripedium plants, &c. If one has more than onelot of _ 
seed to sow the greatest care should be taken that the seed does not get 
mixed during the performance. It is best to have those pots only on which 
one kind of seed is to be sown beside one at a time. A pocket knife isa — 
very suitable instrument to distribute the seed evenly and thinly over, the: 
surface with. Take a little of the seed upon the tip of the blade, hold it 
over the surface of the pot, and then tap gently with the flat of the blade _ 
on the rim of the pot. One can hold the pot in the left hand, so that any 
desired angle can be had. After some practice, one can also distribute the 
seed very nicely by gently puffing it off the tip of the blade. I have been — 
at some pains to describe this very simple operation, as clumsiness is alien 3 
to success in this delicate branch of Orchid growing—raising them from ~ 
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The seed pots should then be placed well up to the light, shaded from 
all direct sunshine, and kept in the warmest parts of their respective houses. 
There need be no haste in pricking the seedlings off, providing they are oat 
not overcrowding each other, but they can be safely pricked off when th 
leaf point is a little way up; if they have room, however, leave them om 
the seed pots until they have started to send out a root. j a 
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THE HYBRIDIST. 
ODoONTIODA HEATONENSIS.—A second Odontioda has now appeared, having 
been raised by Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford, from 
Cochlioda sanguinea and Odontoglossum cirrhosum. It was exhibited at 
a meeting of the R.H.S. on March 6th last, and received an Award of 
Merit. It is a charming little thing, fairly intermediate in size, but most S 
like the Odontoglossum parent in shape. The sepals and petals are broad 
at the base, and much acuminate at the apex, with a whitish ground i 
colour, and numerous rosy-purple spots. The lip is free, with a narrow — : 
claw, nearly parallel to the column, and a reflexed limb, which is vey 
broad at the base, with a narrowly acuminate recurved apex, and whitish 
with some rosy-purple markings in front of the crest. It is remarkably 
different from the one raised by M. Ch. Vuylsteke, as might be expected 
from the parentage. sa 
OpontocLossum X ELaIne.—At the following R.H.S. meeting, held hi 
on March 2oth, Messrs. Charlesworth exhibited another interesting hy 
from Odontoglossum cirrhosum, the pollen parent being O. Harryanum. 
It is a remarkable thing, much like a greatly enlarged edition of Gs 
cirrhosum, with broader very acuminate cream-yellow sepals and petals, 
heavily blotched with dark brown, the spots on the lip and base of the 
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