﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW 



Philip Smith, Esq., Sale (gr. Mr. Kitchen), exhibited Cypripedium X 

 May Proctor, a pretty hybrid derived from C. Charlesworthii X C. Curtisii. 



Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged a showy group 

 of hybrids, to which a Silver Medal was awarded, the more noteworthy 

 exhibits including a handsome Laelio-cattleya X callistoglossa, L.-c. X 

 luminosa, Cattleya X Germania, C. X Iris, C. X Lord Rothschild, C. X 

 Mary Gratrix, C. X Hyades, Cypripedium X Io magnificum, &c. 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



L/Elia X GWENNIE. — A two-flowered inflorescense of a pretty little hybrid, 

 derived from Ladia Jongheana 2 and L. Cowani $ , is sent from the col- 

 lection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham, by Mr. Black. 

 It is from a small plant now flowering for the first time, when a little over 

 three years old, but Mr. Black states that plants were flowered at the 

 beginning of the year, when only two years and six months from seed sow- 

 ing. The flowers most resemble the pollen parent in general character, and 

 measure 3I inches across. The sepals and petals are light reddish buff in 

 colour, and the lip orange yellow, with the front and side lobes crisped, and 

 the disc showing just a trace of the characteristic Jongheana heels. So far 

 as the flower is concerned the influence of the seed parent is not very 

 obvious, but the somewhat enlarged size and reddish tint in the sepals and 

 petals can be traced to this origin. Mr. Black remarks that the hybrid will 

 no doubt improve very much when stronger, and when grown cooler than 

 as yet attempted, for neither of the parents do well in heat, L. Jongheana 

 in particular producing a flower of very poor substance if grown at all hot. 

 The seedling was mentioned, among other interesting ones, at page 259 of 

 our last volume. 



LiELio-CATTLEYA X Orestes. — A pretty little hybrid, now flowering 

 for the first time, has just been sent by Messrs. Cappe, of Vesinet, France. 

 It was obtained from Laelio-cattleya X warnhamensis crossed with the 

 pollen of Cattleya intermedia, and the seeds were sown in x\pril, 1901. The 

 plant, however, is said to be still very small, and the inflorescence bore only 

 a single flower, when at least four to six may be expected later on. The 

 pollen masses are said to have been four in number, as in Cattleya. The 

 flower bears a general resemblance to Laelio-cattleya X Amelia (C. inter- 

 media X L. cinnabarina), but instead of half cinnabarina blood, as in 

 that, the present one has one quarter each of L. cinnabarina and Cattleya 

 Trianae. The flower sent is past its best, but has light buff-yellow sepals 

 and petals, whitish side lobes to the lip, and a deep purple front lobe. We 

 shall hope to see it again when the plant becomes stronger. 



