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Again, some people assert that it is impossible to cross Selenipediums 
with Cypripediums. I, however, have seedlings making sturdy growth of 
Cypripedium callosum crossed with Selenipedium caudatum. Whether I 
could obtain the reverse cross is another question. One thing, however, 
which the above teaches me is, that if different species will not cross one 
way, they often may the reverse one, and thus a blend of the two ‘‘ bloods ”’ 
is still obtained. 
I believe some people entertain the idea that Selenipedium x Sedeni is 
not fertile, either as pollen or seed parent, and yet I fancy that a new hybrid 
Selenipedium was recently exhibited which had Selenipedium x Sedeni as 
one of its parents ! 
There is no doubt whatever that the field for observation of the proper 
season, temperature, aspect of the plant in the house, atmosphere, best 
species for seed and pollen parents, is an extensive one, and offers a most 
fascinating and interesting occupation to the horticulturist who wishes to be 
in the front rank of successful hybridisers. 
STANLEY G. LUTWYCHE. 
Eden Park, Beckenham. 
‘The success in crossing Dendrobium fimbriatum oculatum with D. 
primulinum is interesting, and we hope that on a future occasion seedlings 
may be successfully raised. But we merely recorded the failure at Burford 
without stating, or even thinking, it impossible. We have no record of 
whether it was also used as the pollen parent. Many years ago Messrs. 
Veitch effected a cross between Cypripedium barbatum and Selenipedium 
caudatum, and the seedlings appear to be intermediate in character. Long 
ago they reached their full development, but cannot be induced to flower, 
though various plans have been tried to induce them to do so. Selenipe- 
dium x Sedeni is one parent of the beautiful S. x Schroeder, and of 
some four or five others, as we shall presently show.—ED. } 
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CALANTHE x VEITCHII AS A WILD PLANT. 
The beautiful Calanthe x Veitchii flowered for the first time in December, 
1859, having been obtained by Mr. Dominy, by crossing C. rosea (then 
called Limatodes) with the pollen of C. vestita. These two plants grow 
together in Burmah, and it is a most interesting matter to note that after 
a lapse of over thirty years the hybrid should have been detected in a wild 
state. The discovery is due to Mr. Boxall, who observed a plant growing 
together with the two species in question, which he felt certain was a 
natural hybrid between them; consequently he secured it and brought it 
home. It flowered in the establishment of Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of 
Clapton, in January, 1893, and is so nearly identical with the artificially 
