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SEEDLING ORCHIDS. 
The following notes may be of interest to your readers, as it serves to show 
how rapidly seedlings may sometimes be produced. On October 4th, 1892, 
I fertilised Cattleya guttata, C. chrysotoxa and Lelia Dayana with the 
pollen of Cattleya Hardyana, Young’s variety. On April 5th, 1893, the 
guttata pod had cracked, and I sowed the seed, while on August 9th the 
seedlings are plainly visible. The chrysotoxa pod only ripened on August 
roth, and is now sown, while the Dayana pod is still unripe. I keep a very 
strict record, so there is no mistake. I have had Cypripedium seedlings up 
in four months from date of sowing the seed, but the pod had taken longer 
to ripen. REGINALD YOUNG. 
(A very interesting note, and we hope Mr. Young will succeed in flower- 
ing his seedlings, and that they may prove good. Cannot we induce him 
to try to cross Cattleya Warscewiczii (gigas) and C. Dowiana, or Lelia 
purpurata with Cattleya Leopoldi and C. intermedia. There is a great 
interest attached to proving the parentage of supposed natural hybrids, and 
the above crosses should yield three of the most beautiful ones yet known, 
namely, Cattleya x Hardyana, Lelio-cattleya x elegans, and L. x Schil- 
leriana. These experiments would be well worth trying. —Eb.]} 
HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
(Continued from page 206.) 
Two additional forms of the polymorphic Odontoglossum x luteopureo 
crispum have been discovered, and may conveniently be mentioned here : — 
Odontoglossum xX Wilckeanum var. atropurpureum, Hort., Gard. Chron., 1891,1. P. 563+ 
O. crispum var. President Zhaldua, Rodigas in ///. Hort., xXxvi. p. 31; t 79- _— ee 
in which the disc of the sepals is wholly dark red-brown, with the margin and apex ae an 
and the petals almost as heavily marked. It appeared in the collection of M. Charles Vuy!- 
steke, of Loochristy, Ghent. ; : 
-X Wilcken as var. nobilior, Hort., Gard. Chron., 1892, \- PP- sit Ata et ig st 
coloured variety, with deeply toothed petals, pale ground colour, and light pee se * 
It was exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and Co., of Heaton, es o 
the Temple Show in May, 1892, when it received an Award of Merit from the Royal Hortt- 
cultural Society. 
3. ODONTOGLossuM LINDLEYANO-CRISPUM.— We now come to the third 
and last combination with Odontoglossum crispum, namely O, Eindieyanum. 
This particular hybrid is also represented in numerous collections, though a 
May not be quite so common as the two preceding ones. Nor has it receiv 
such a multiplicity of names. 
