OcTOBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2g 
it.” Here’s base ingratitude! I really hope Prof. Henslow has libelled 
‘the Orchid seedling, because, if not, I shall think less of him in future. 
When looking at M. Bernard’s interesting photograph one cannot help 
‘thinking of some possible tragedy about to be enacted. 
I think a few of our growers must have laid in a large stock of these 
fungi—whether they are aware of the fact or not is another matter—for the 
progress in raising Odontoglossum seedlings during the last few years has 
ibeen remarkable. I alluded to this matter in my last notes, but since then 
O. X Stewartianum and O. X Eurydice have been figured in these pages, 
not to mention the eight beautiful forms exhibited by M. Vuylsteke at the 
Temple Show. Then O. x Elaine has appeared, from O. cirrhosum and 
Harryanum, and O. xX Terpsichore from O. Pescatorei and polyxanthum, 
not to mention the new Odontioda x heatonensis, from Cochlioda sanguinea 
and Odontoglossum cirrhosum—certainly a remarkable series. 
Speaking of Odontioda reminds me of the new figure of the original O. 
X Vuylstekez, given at page 217, showing that the plant has now produced 
a spike of no less than thirty-two flowers, a truly remarkable development. 
The plant is evidently as robust as it is beautiful, and it is good news that 
other seedlings of it are in existence. 
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It is rather interesting to see a figure of the original Phalaenopsis 
-amabilis, of Blume, under its correct name (p. 233), with a note on the 
temarkable confusion in its history. I alluded to the matter about a year 
“ago, when the question of unnecessary changes in nomenclature cropped 
up, and perhaps in time we shall get used to calling the plant by its right 
Name. 
I observe a note on ‘“ Hybridising with mixed polle 
Thope that we are not on the eve of a new departure. at 
‘seedlings, lost records or none at all, and a perplexing variation am 
Seedlings out of the same capsule, there are difficulties enough already, 
‘without the latest development, and it is satisfactory to note that sie 
Practicable seems likely to come out of it. If the thing could be worke 
‘Successfully, there is no telling what might happen, for there would be no 
one might mix three or four, or half-a-dozen, 
until at length one might introduce a perfect blend of pollen, with pee 
attendant characters, all at once. Indeed one might almost arrange the 
Tesult beforehand, if the necessary pollen were available. Happily, as ne 
_ “Ppears to me, we are told that the thing won't work, the result being t © 
Same as if pollen of one kind only is used, except as to the uncertainty 
n” at page 284, and 
What with stray 
ong 
heed to stop at two species, 
