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3. This rule now seems to be almost pretty generally accepted. 
4. The practice of treating secondary hybrids and those of doubtful 
parentage as florists’ flowers, and of giving them vernacular names, has 
frequently been recommended, for reasons which are pretty well understood, 
and need not be repeated here. 
We can only hope that some of these suggestions may be adopted, as we 
believe it would tend to lift the subject out of some of the confusion in which 
it has become involved. 
CATTLEYA x PATROCINII. 
In a Brazilian newspaper, the Citade de Rio, for May 28, 1890, an 
account was published by Visconde de Saint Leger of a Brazilian Cattleya, 
under the name of Cattleya x Patrocinii, which was stated to be a natural 
hybrid between Cattleya Loddigesii and C. guttata leopardina, and judging 
by the description given, which is in Portuguese, the parentage has been 
correctly recorded. In August of the same year a Cattleya, which had been 
imported from Rio de Janeiro two or three years previously, flowered for the 
first time, in the collection of Herr Rucker-Jenisch, of Flottbeck, Hamburg, 
under the care of the late Franz Kramer, who at once thought it must be a 
natural hybrid, with some such parentage as the above. It has also appeared 
with M. A. A. Peeters, of St. Gilles, Brussels, who received it from Brazil 
four years ago. It has flowered on three occasions, always in September 
and October, and this year it carries a raceme of seven flowers. M. Peeters 
States that the plant closely resembles C. Loddigesii in habit. The flowers 
Show an unmistakable combination of the characters of the two parents. 
The sepals and petals are subequal, bright rose-purple, with many darker 
‘pots. The lip is three-lobed, nearly intermediate in shape, the side tec 
acute, and yellowish white with a slight suffusion of rose, and the front lo : 
— Tose-purple. The column is pale lilac, its face yellow at the od an 
light rose-purple above. Thus the flower is most like C. guttata in ae 
With the size and colour approaching C. Loddigesii, both, however, being 
: isti iful. 
SOmewhat modified, as hybrids always are. It is very distinct and me u 
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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR NOVEMBER. 
By W. H. WHITE, Burford, Dorking. 
riod at which the winter 
Tae idered as the pe 
Present month may be conside ly necessary to lower the 
eatment of Orchids commences, and it is not on 
