THE ORCHID REVIEW. r7t 
HYBRIDS BETWEEN CYPRIPEDIUM AND 
ae ' SELENIPEDIUM, © 
In your description of the Cambridge Lodge collection of Orchids on 
p. 106, you state that Cypripedium Rothschildianum has been crossed with 
Selenipedium x Jeucorrhodum, and that it is only one of a series of crosses 
made between the two genera, Cypripedium and Selenipedium, though 
hitherto without any practical result; for while numerous capsules have 
been obtained, no seed has ever yet been induced to germinate. It would 
appear that Mr. Measures has not yet any young plants up of this cross, 
and when he has I venture to think he will find them much more difficult 
to rear than when the Old World Cypripediums are fertilised between 
themselves, and likewise the New World Selenipediums. These mostly 
come freely, and are moderately easy to manage; but the intercrossing of 
the two genera is a much more tiresome matter. I have crossed Cypri- 
pedium Parishii with Selenipedium caricinum, ripened the seed, sowed it, 
and raised young plants, and grown them for several years, and at the end 
of that time they were only in thumb pots. These plants, if now living, 
must be some twelve or fourteen years old, but I have no knowledge if they 
have ever flowered, though they were perfectly healthy when the collection 
I had charge of at Oakley, Fallowfield, Manchester, was sold by private 
treaty. Thése seedlings, with some others, went to Messrs. W. Thomson 
and Son’s Nursery, Clovenfords, Galashiels; and I doubt not if inquiry 
were made respecting them some further information might be obtained. 
Bystock, Exmouth. W. Swan. 
[We hope to learn more particulars of this interesting cross. Allusion 
was made at p. 66 to some seedlings raised between Cypripedium Law- 
renceanum ? and Selenipedium x Sedeni?, which Mr. Swinburne, of Chelten- 
ham, hopes to flower soon. Also to some raised many years ago between 
S. caudatum x C. barbatum by Messrs. Veitch, which they have just 
written to say have not flowered, and do not yet show any signs of doing 
so. Mr. Statter, of Whitefield, Manchester, has also a reputed cross 
between S. x Sedeni@? and C. Stonei f just showing for flower, of which we 
hope to hear more. At present it looks much like a plant of C. Stonei, and 
the opening of the flowers will be awaited with interest.—Eb.| 
Tee HY BRigeral. 
be DENDROBIUM X: VIRGINIA. a 
_ A beautiful hybrid, raised in Messrs. James Veitch and Sons’ nursery 
at Langley, near Slough, by Mr. Seden, from Dendrobium moniliforme 
(japonicum) ¢ and D. Bensoniz §, and thence the first in which D. Bensoniz 
has participated in the parentage. The. chief features of the flowers are 
