Jo THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
the ordinary Stonei,” it would be a very anxious time until the flowering 
of the seedlings, and it would also be interesting to know if any 
degenerated, and so produced the true form of Stonei (J.c., p. 49). 
Mr. Douglas then questioned if producing seed was so very injurious 
to healthy plants, for it was their nature to bear seed and propagate 
their species, and he had ripened many seed pods on Cypripediums 
without injuring them (/.c., p. 82). 
“H.C.” finally replied that he had the good fortune to spend three 
years at Tottenham before the dispersal of Mr. Day’s collection, during 
which time he had much to do with seedlings and hybridising, for both 
Mr. Day and his gardener were enthusiastic hybridists, and that he had 
seen numerous cases of plants being weakened by seed-bearing (several 
examples being mentioned). Finally he might give verbatim his present 
employer’s views, who was a great lover of Orchids, and a most thorough 
hybridist (the late Mr. John C. Bowring) :—‘“I have myself lost numerous 
plants, including a fine variety of Anguloa eburnea, and a good plant ot 
the rare Cypripedium Fairrieanum”’ (l.c. p. 222). 
It would be interesting to know if anything came of the seed-pod of 
Cypripedium Stonei platytenium above mentioned, also of any further 
experiments with C. Fairrieanum, which we believe has never been 
successfully used as the seed parent. The re-introduction of C. Spicer- 
ianum and Cattleya labiata has, of course, completely altered the aspect 
of the question with regard to them, but unless we are much mistaken, 
seedlings of the former have been raised, though they were supposed 
to be hybrids until they flowered. 
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PAPHIOPEDIUM x DEEDMANIANUM. 
WE have now received from Mr. W. B. Latham, of the Birmingham 
Botanical Gardens, a flower of this very interesting hybrid, which was 
figured at page 49 of our last issue, and it quite bears out the remarks then 
made by Mr. Wills. Considering that P. Chamberlainianum was the 
pollen parent, it is remarkable how much it resembles that species in 
character, the shape of the dorsal sepal showing perhaps the most distinct 
influence of P. Spicerianum. But even here the influence of the other 
parent is seen, in the white being modified to cream yellow. The green and 
brown mottling of the petals and base of the dorsal sepal are well shown in 
the figure, and the colour has already been described. We anticipate that 
it will develop into a very beautiful plant. It will be seen from an 
advertisement on another page that the Society has a few plants to 
dispose of. 
