14. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
the rarity and value of the variety itself, I determined to cross one flower 
with the pollen of the other. The seed pod as depicted in the photograph 
is the result. The flower was fertilised on February 20, 1893, and about 
eleven months later the pod was fully ripe. The séed has now been sown 
in two pots, Maxillaria grandiflora and Lelia elegans.” | 
It is certainly a superb variety, though the photograph gives no idea 
of its elegant colour. It is also considerably reduced, but the following 
are the dimensions of the flower:—It measured slightly over six inches: 
from tip to tip of the lateral sepals, and each sepal was over one inch and 
five-eighths broad. The petals and lip are rather less spreading than in 
some varieties, and their light apricot tint, so well commemorated in the 
name, imparts to the flower a great charm, and contrasts effectively with 
the other varieties of this fine plant. The capsule introduces a novel 
feature into the illustration, and we think Mr. Young has done well in 
seeking to increase this unique variety by the method adopted. It will be 
interesting to observe whether it comes true from seed. 
Lycaste Skinneri armeniaca, Reichenbachia, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 39, t. 18. 
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LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA. 
It would be very interesting to readers of THE OrcHID Review if Mr. 
Young would state his mode of treatment, as really his success (see page 
64) makes one’s mouth water. I was in Paris last week, and saw in a 
shop close to the Grand Hotel two plants of ordinary Lycaste Skinneri, 
each with twenty-four blooms, some spikes bearing two flowers. This 
struck me as being exceptional, but a plant of the variety alba with twenty- 
four blooms must be a sight worth seeing. 
W. W. PALMER. 
(We were much struck with the beauty of the photograph, and should 
have reproduced it but for the circumstance that we gave a figure in our 
last volume (p. 113, fig. 8)—which, by the way, was accidentally omitted 
from the list of illustrations at the end of the volume. Mr. Young’s photo- 
graph shows a form with broader sepals.—Ep.] 
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NOVELTIES. 
_ L&LIA ANCEPS VAR. HOLLIDAYANA, O’Brien.—A_ white variety, intro- 
duced from the Orizaba district, by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans. 
It is evidently very near the one called Dawsoni, having ‘similar broad 
petals, but a shorter and broader lip, with a carmine-crimson. blotch on. the: 
square: front lobe.—Gard. Chron., Feb. roth, p. 166, - 
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