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parent exerts a greatly preponderating influence. -Additions were made to 
most of the large showy genera, but as we shall have to summarise them 
elsewhere they may be passed over. Suffice it to say that among the 
complex hybrids of Cypripediums some striking novelties appeared, several 
of them being certificated by the R.H.S. 
ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
This genus has rapidly come to the front, for over a dozen interesting 
novelties were recorded, without reckoning varieties of hybrids previously 
recorded. Probably the most striking addition was O. X maculatissimum, 
exhibited by M. Ch. Vuylsteke at Ghent, while O. x Groganiz, raised by 
J. H. Grogan, Esq., from O. X Uroskinneri and O. Edwardii, was one o 
the most interesting. O. x hibernicum, O. xX Clytie, and O. x Eleanor, 
raised by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., and O. X Zenobia, O. x Nerissa, 
and O. Xx Nemea, raised by De Barri Crawshay, Esq., were also attractive 
additions to the list. Several others also flowered with Mr. Crawshay. 
CERTIFICATED ORCHIDS. 
The certificated Orchids of the year contain a large proportion of 
novelties. Fifty-one First-class Certificates were awarded by the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and of these thirty-eight were given to hybrids, 
either new or of very recent origin. Odontoglossum heads the list, with 
ten hybrids and three varieties of O. crispum. Then comes Cypripedium 
with nine, six of them hybrids, the others being C. Charlesworthii Bromi- 
lowianum, C. bellatulum, Exhim’s var., and the old Siberian C. macranthum 
(the latter certificated under the name of C. ventricosum). Of the eight 
Cattleyas four were hybrids, two of them being forms of the beautiful albino 
C. x Suzanne Hye de Crom. There were four Brassocattleyas, three 
Leliocattleyas, and three Vandas, including the beautiful albino V. ccerulea 
Charlesworthii and a coloured form of the species, two Odontiodas, both 
of them forms of the brilliant O. Charlesworthii, two Sophrocattleyas, and 
two Cymbidiums, both forms of C. insigne, Genera claiming but a single 
representative were Dendrobium, Calanthe, Phaius, Miltonia and Stanhopea, 
all hybrids but the last, which was a form of the fine old S. tigrina. The 
Awards of Merit we have not attempted to analyse, nor yet the numerous 
awards of the Manchester Orchid Society. : 
INHERITANCE OF ALBINISM. 
Some remarkable facts respecting the inheritance of Albinism have 
come to light during the year, which have been very fully discussed in our 
pages. With the object of obtaining albino hybrids, albino varieties of 
different species have been intercrossed, and now that the seedlings are 
beginning to flower an unexpected condition of things has revealed itself, 
the hybrids having in many cases reverted to ordinary coloured forms. 
Hybrids between, Cypripedium insigns Sanders and C. xX Maudie, C, — 
