THE ORCHID REVIEW. 163 
We regret to learn that the valuable Orchids exhibited by M. Jules 
Hye at the Temple Show have been lost. It appears that about 9 p.m. on 
Friday evening, when exhibitors were packing up and removing their 
collections, the plants were seen in the tent by the Society’s Superintendent 
and by M. Hye’s assistant. The latter then left the tent, and on his 
return about an hour later the plants’ were missing. Telegrams have 
been sent to other exhibitors under the impression that they might have 
been packed up by accident with some other collection, but without result, 
and a reward has been offered for their recovery. 
AN AMATEUR’S EXPERIENCES. 
By Eustace F. CLarK, B.A., TEIGNMOUTH. 
(Concluded from page 133). 
On January roth, 1897, I made my first experiments in hybridization, 
crossing Cypripedium x _ Sallieri and C. x Leeanum each with 
pollen of C. venustum; C. venustum with pollen of C. x Sallieri; 
and C. insigne with pollen of C. xX Leeanum. The last proved 
a failure, but the pod of C. Xx Sallieri ripened, and the seed was 
sown about the same time as some seed of C. xX Harrisianum xX C. 
callosum (the cross of which was effected in February, 1897), which 
ripened about the same time (October 24th, 1897), but I have as yet no 
seedlings from either cross. The pod of C. venustum seems about ripe, and 
that of C. x Leeanum likely soon to be so, but a peculiar growth seems to 
be taking place at the base of the pod, similar to what might be produced 
from the base of the plant. Possibly it means to flower again from the same 
spike. A little Jadoo fibre in the compost may have had some effect in 
creating growth from an unusual place. A pod of Cypripedium callosum 
crossed with C. Boxalliion February 24th, 1897, ripened towards the end of 
January, 1898. 
Two pods of Odontoglossum Rossii on the same stalk crossed with 
other Odontoglossums (I think O. maculatum and O. Pescatorei) have 
appeared to ripen, bursting, one in December and the other in January last. 
The first and largest pod appeared to contain only chaff, but the latter seems 
more hopeful. Pods of O. Pescatorei from a cross made at the same time 
are still unripened. 
In April, 1897, after a winter without incident, I added several more 
Cypripedium seedlings, including two specially promising ones, C. Chamber- 
lainianum xX Spicerianum magnificum, and C. Spicerianum magnificum 
x C. X Juno. Both have so far done well. I also purchased my first Lzelio- 
cattleya seedling, Cattleya Mendelii X Lelia cinnabarina, This was 
