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and it has been found that seedlings result with greater certainty than when 
hybridised. It will be interesting to see if all the seedlings from white 
Cattleyas are true albinos. 
C. Dowiana hybrids are well represented, there being seedlings derived 
from crossing with pollen of C. Triane alba and Lelia xanthina; also C. 
Mendelii and C. labiata x Dowiana aurea. The latter crossed with C. 
Warscewiczii and the reverse cross are, of course, C. X Hardyana. Other 
interesting seedlings pointed out were C. labiata X Hardyana, C. superba 
x Warscewiczii, and C. Triane alba X Lelia Cowani. 
The Sophronitis seedlings were an interesting little group, the respective 
pollen parents being Cattleya Mendelii, C. Percivaliana, C. Dowiana, 
€. amethystoglossa, and Brassavola Digbyana, the latter being specially 
interesting. C. Mendelii x S. grandiflora is interesting as the reverse of 
the cross first-named. 
There were also a lot of interesting Dendrobium seedlings, the more 
noteworthy being D. Ellisii album xX nobile virginale, D. n. Sandere X 
Wardianum album, D. Findlayanum x nobile Ballianum, and the last- 
named X D. n. Sandere. Among other interesting things seen in this 
house we must mention seedlings of both Cymbidium Lowianum and C. X 
eburneo-Lowianum X Tracyanum, and the former should prove the parent- 
age of the natural hybrid C. x I’Ansoni, figured at page 209 of our eighth 
volume. 
We next inspected a Cool House, where our attention was arrested by 
about a score Odontoglossums bearing capsules in various stages, one 
plant of O. Pescatorei bearing as many as five pods. Cochlioda Neetzliana 
also carried two pods, as the result of crossing with O. crispum and O. X 
Adriane. Other interesting crosses were O. Rossii X crispum (two pods), 
©. Pescatorei X Wilckeanum, and O. Pescatorei X crispum. Over a 
dozen plants of Sophronitis grandiflora carried seed-pods, representing 
crosses of various kinds, and we saw one very interesting seedling obtained 
by crossing Oncidium tigrinum with the pollen of Odontoglossum crispum ; 
also two purchased plants of the handsome O. X armainvillierense. 
In another house we noted batches of seedlings from Dendrobium 
Findlayanum x nobile virginale, Cattleya bicolor X Warscewiczii and 
Hardyana, Sophronitis grandiflora x Cattleya Mendelii, Lelia tenebrosa 
x S. grandiflora, Brassavola Digbyana x C. intermedia alba, and many 
others in thriving condition. Incidentally it may be remarked that the 
last-named seedlings came from the very capsule figured at page 249 of our 
last volume, so that the figure may some day be historically interesting. 
The next house was particularly interesting, for in it we saw two pods 
of Dendrobium Brymerianum x crepidatum, one of D. Phalaenopsis X 
Brymerianum, and three of D. fimbriatum crossed with, respectively, D. 
