26 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1903, 
is naturally cool. The conditions under which this specimen was grown 
are as follows:—From the end of May to about the beginning of October 
the cool Orchids are grown in sheltered places in the open air, those 
loving the most shade being placed in a small court-yard, with the 
entrance covered with a canvas screen.: These open-air shelters are fitted 
with skeleton frames, on which light canvas shading is stretched, to break 
the rays of the sun, and the keen winds when the weather is rough. They 
are placed on a stage erected over a border planted with hardy ferns. 
During the rest of the year they are grown in a small house, and the 
temperature is kept rather low, sometimes falling to 49° in cold weather. 
Various other cool Orchids, which require pretty similar treatment with 
regard to sun and shade, succeed equally well under this treatment, and 
flower abundantly year after year. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CATTLEYA X C1.ARIssA.—This is a chaste and very beautiful hybrid sent 
from the collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, m.p., Highbury, 
Birmingham, by Mr. Mackay. It is believed to have originated from a 
cross between C. Loddigesii @ and C. Mendelii 3 which was made in the 
collection, and bears strong evidence of such a parentage. The flower has 
the general shape of C. Loddigesii, somewhat modified in details, but the 
colour is of the clearest white, with a large triangular purple blotch 
on the front lobe, which affords a very striking contrast. The spike has 
two flowers at present, and when it is fully developed it will be a most 
beautiful thing. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X OMPHALE.—A pretty hybrid raised in the collection 
of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Poyntz), from 
P. tonsum 2 and P. x Lucie g¢ (Lawrenceanum X ciliolare). The seeds 
were sown in March, 1898, and the first flower opened in October last 
The petals are nearly horizontal and strongly ciliate, but almost exactly like 
P. tonsum in colour and spotting. The dorsal sepal is fairly intermediate 
between the last-named and P. Lawrenceanum, being light green at the 
base, with the nerves passing into purple just before reaching the white 
apex, at which point the purple is somewhat suffused, forming a broad 
zone. The characters of P. ciliolare are largely obliterated. 
L#LIO-CATTLEYA X GLapys.—A beautiful hybrid raised in the collection 
of EVR; Thayer, Esq., S. Lancaster, Mass., U.S.A., from Lelia tenebrosa 
X Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, and described in American Gardening for 
September 6th last (P- 574) by Mr. Orpet. Luc. xX Eva, exhibited by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons on October atst la 
st, must be considered as 
a form of the same. 
