166 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
from plants sent by the Rev. Mr. Parish to Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. A 
variety grows in Assam, which is said to have been sent by Thomas Lobb 
to Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, some fifteen years earlier, and 
has the front lobe of the lip striped with brown and white. The conditions 
under which it grows in a wild state are recorded by Major-Gen. Berkeley 
at p. 242 of our last volume. 
ORCHID HYBRIDISATION. 
(Concluded from page 117.) 
THE question which now remains is what to cross. Some details have 
already been given, at page 52, as to the selection of parents, but a record 
of some of the crosses which have been made without any result will also 
be useful as a guide. One frequently hears of remarkable and sometimes 
apparently impossible crosses which have been made, and, for a time 
at least, with every prospect of uitimate success, though in the majority 
of cases this early promise has not been fulfilled. Still seedlings are in 
existence which have been derived from very distinct parents, and will 
probably flower in due time. One of the most remarkable instances is that 
recorded at page 366 of our last volume by Mr. Burberry: ‘“‘ We have 
a healthy batch of about a dozen plants obtained by crossing Sobralia 
macrantha with the pollen of Cattleya gigas.” In the case of such very 
different looking parents it should be possible to see at a very early stage 
whether the seedlings are true hybrids; for this is not always the case. 
Mr. Veitch records that ‘‘ Zygopetalum Mackayi has been crossed with 
several species of Odontoglossum, and seedlings | raised from some of the 
crosses, but every one that has yet flowered -has proved to be Zygopetalum 
Mackayi’—a seemingly inexplicable fact. Our readers are invited to 
send notes of any other remarkable crosses, for it is desirable that any 
notes of this kind should be placed on record. 
Among the crosses made by Messrs. Veitch from which capsules of 
apparently good seed were obtained, which still failed to germinate, are: 
Acanthephippium Curtisii crossed with Chysis bractescens, Bletia hyacin- 
thina crossed with Calanthe masuca, Chysis aurea crossed with Zygopetalum 
x Sedeni, Odontoglossum bictoniense crossed with Zygopetalum maxillare, 
and Zygopetalum Mackayi crossed with Lycaste Skinneri. A very large 
number of others produced capsules, to- all appearances externally perfect, 
not only from generic crosses, but between: species of. the same genus, 
which - contained not a single seed. - 
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