4 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1903. 
In conclusion, we would urge our readers to make more use of our pages 
for their individual experiences, as important items of information are apt 
to be lost if not placed on record at the time, and such details are always 
read with interest. In this way, and in making the work more widely 
known among their friends, our readers could materially assist the progress 
of the work. We desire to enlist the sympathy and support of all lovers of 
these beautiful plants, who we hope will assist us in making the coming 
decade of even greater importance than the one now completed. In 
conclusion we wish all our friends and subscribers a happy new year, and 
increased prosperity to their collections. 
ZYGOPETALUM MACKAYI AS A PARENT. 
Ir has already been recorded that the facility with which Zygopetalum 
Mackayi can be made to produce seed and seedlings when fertilized with 
pollen from other genera is surprising, and the resulting progeny remarkable 
for being in each instance true to the mother parent. We have raised and 
flowered plants here that were the result of fertilizing the Zygopetalum with 
Lycaste Skinneri, but we have other evidence bearing upon the matter that 
is worthy of publication, as it refers to experiments in the second generation, 
from which we are taught that the break might be expected to come. 
Mr. George McWilliam, of Whitinsville, Mass., one of our most 
painstaking of hybridizers, and very successful in his work, some time 
since fertilized Z. Mackayi with pollen of Lelia anceps, and in due time 
plants were raised and flowered, all being without variation Z. Mackayi. 
‘One of the resulting plants was then fertilized with pollen of a white form 
of L. anceps, and the first plant has just bloomed from this experiment, 
the results being the same as before, except that the flower is a shade or 
two paler than usually seen, but there is no modification of the parts. 
Mr. McWilliam has again fertilized this light form with a white variety of 
L. anceps, to see what the third generation may bring forth, and in due 
time no doubt we shall be able to chronicle the results. 
would be willing to give up trying after two failures, but ther 
here for discussion as to why it is some plants are so 
impregnation, and yet the same does not leave its i 
generations. It is one of the many problems th 
experimenter thinking—as also with Epidendrum r 
this species has never yet produced seedlings when crossed or fertilized with 
any other subject. These and similar questions are suitable matter for 
the study of the plant physiologist ; the average cultivator can rarely find 
time or possess the requisite apparatus, but he can easily furnish materials 
enough. 
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