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patience and care must be applied in manipulating it ; and if to these two 
virtuous assets an illusive and phantom-like intervention known as good 
luck lends its assistance a few seedlings may be the result, which will, in a 
year or two, be large enough to count. 
On the other hand, Cattleyas of the long-bulbed group, with their smaller 
(and poorer) flowers and shorter columns, lend themselves more readily to 
be seed-bearers, both when crossed with the pollen of Sophronitis pure or 
when used with the pollen of a secondary Sophronitis hybrid, for these 
latter are only one degree removed from the Sophronitis in their intract- 
ability as seed-bearers. The result is that while Sophrocattleyas having 
for parents C. Bowringiana, Harrisoniana, intermedia, Leopoldi, Loddigesii, 
and amethystoglossa are fairly well known, and have been for some years 
catalogued, such later productions, of a vastly different caste, as the 
Sophrocattleyas having Dowiana, Mendelii, or X Hardyana for the other 
parent are comparatively little known and have hardly yet acquired the 
venommée that their great beauty, their rarity and their infinite possibilities 
as future parents warrant. Sophrocattleya Imperatrix (C. Mossie ? X S. 
grandiflora ¢ ) must be included among the latter. This appeared as long ago 
as 1899, raised by Messrs. Veitch, and found its way into the collection of 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, the Dell, Egham. It was the only seedling raised, 
and remains still a perfectly unique plant. 
‘Among Sophrolelias we find some dearth of really fine things—fine in 
the sense that one would expect from Sophronitis grandiflora. All, how- 
ever, are charming flowers, and particularly fine when well grown are S.-l. 
Orpetiana, S.-l. heatonensis and S.-]. Gratrixiz. 
Among the secondary Sophronitis hybrids, 7.e., where a Sophronitis 
hybrid has been used as one of the parents, I find that out of the thirteen 
existing Sophrocatlelias, one or other of the Sophrolzlias has been used ten 
times, and a Sophrocattleya only three (and these long-bulbed Cattleya 
crosses), so that there is a predominance throughout of Lelia and the long- 
bulbed section of Cattleya. The most successful among these secondary 
hybrids is Sophrocatlelia Marathon, already mentioned, the variety 
Vesuvius being one of the most lovely of the whole group. It stands out as 
an inspiration for further and repeated effort. This hybrid is between S.-l. 
Psyche and C. X Frederickiz, and contains consequently equal parts of L. 
cinnabarina, S. grandiflora, C. Mossiz and C. Dowiana. This I consider 
one of Mr. Charlesworth’s most notable triumphs. It will be quite unneces- 
sary for me to go further into the secondaries, as I am appending, as far-as 
I know, a complete list of them, and students will see at a glance what has 
so far been produced. I am indebted to the catalogue of Messrs. Chariles- 
worth for a few names that I have failed to find elsewhere, and to this firm 
is due the credit of having largely enriched this group by their many fine 
