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We also find notices of a number of Orchid Sales, including 340 lots of 
Costa Rican Orchids, from Warscewicz, to be sold at Stevens’ Rooms, a 
fresh supply of Guatemalan Orchids by the ship Agnes,” Phalaenopsis 
from Java, the long-tailed Cypripedium from Peru, which fetched £2 10s. 
to £9 15s.,&c. The new Phalznopsis rosea fetched from £7 Ios. to 
£20 gs. 6d. each, and the large-flowered kinds £3 3s. to £8 15s. each. In 
one case we find three hundred lots of various species realising an aggregate 
of £600 to £700. 
Another interesting Orchid, which made its appearance in 1848, was the 
now familiar Lzlio-cattleya X elegans, which was described and figured by 
C. Morren under the name of Cattleya elegans. It flowered in Belgium, 
with M. Verschaffelt, who is said to have received it from Santa Catherina, 
through his collector, Frangois De Vos. Of course no one then suspected 
it to be a natural hybrid, and it may be mentioned as a curious circum- 
stance that neither of its two parents, Lelia purpurata and Cattleya 
Leopoldi, were described until some time afterwards. 
Probably the most interesting development of the following year was 
the attention that was called to the possibility of raising Orchids from seed. 
In an article entitled ‘‘On growing Orchids from seeds” (Gard. Chron., 
1849, p. 549), Mr. D. Moore wrote :—‘ Within the last five years seedlings 
of the following species have been raised in the Orchid-house at Glasnevin, 
namely, Epidendrum elongatum and crassifolium, Cattleya Forbesii, and 
Phaius albus, the seeds of which all vegetate freely.” One can easily 
imagine the interest with which an announcement of this kind would be 
received, and a few extracts from the article will show the position of the 
question at that period. Mr. Moore wrote :— 
‘““At the present time there are few subjects connected with plant- 
growing on which there is less recorded information than that of growing 
Orchids from seeds, which appears the more remarkable when the great 
interest our ablest cultivators have taken in growing this singular tribe is 
considered, along with their tardiness of increase by division of the plant, 
and their intrinsic value. I am not aware that there is any case on record 
of hybridisation having been effected among Orchids, though there seems 
no doubt that such could be accomplished by caretul manipulation, an 
inference I draw from reasoning analogically on experiments made here to 
get seed.” 
The seeds, when ripe, were scattered on the surfaces of the other 
Orchid pots, or on pots prepared for the purpose; after which constant 
shade, a steady high temperature, with abundance of moisture, were con- 
sidered as absolutely necessary to secure success. In the course of eight 
or nine days after sowing, the seeds began to assume a darker colour, and 
evident signs of approaching vegetation might be perceived, which 
