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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
fragrant, and are produced in August and 
September. 
In the neighbourhood of Sydne\- it tlirives 
well in the partial shade of a bush-house, at- 
tached to a piece of sound wood ; care should 
be taken to select a piece that will last, as 
Orchids cannot be grown on decayed timber. 
An excellent method of fixing the plants on 
to the wood is to cut an ordinary- cork into thin 
sections, which are placed over the Orchid 
roots and secureh- attached to the wood with 
broad-headed tacks. The plants are thus 
firmly fixed, and no injur\- is done to the roots. 
The plants on the blocks of wood are daily 
watered and shaded during the summer season 
and during their period of growth, but during 
the winter are kept much drier, care being 
taken not to allow the bulbs to become 
shrivelled. 
B IS 
L.elio-Cattleya D. S. Browx. ( L.-C. 
Schilleriana x C. Trianas). — A flower of this 
pretty hybrid has been sent by Mr. Cooper, 
Orchid grower to H. S. Leon, Esq., Bletchley 
Park, Bucks., with the remark that it was 
raised from L.-C. elegans x C. Trianae. It 
should be noted that Laelio purpurata, 
Cattleya intermedia, and C. Leopoldii all grow 
together in their native land, Brazil, and when 
importations of these plants have been re- 
ceived hybrids have frequently apj^eared ; the 
dark coloured ones being called L.-C. elegans, 
and the light ones white elegans or elegans 
Schilleriana. It is now known that the two 
are quite distinct : L. purpurata x C. Leo- 
poldii making L.-C. elegans, and L. purpurata 
X C. intermedia producing the light forms now 
known as L.-C. Schilleriana. 
The hybrid which Mr. Cooper sends has 
delicate rose sepals and petals, the latter 
being obscurelv veined, a broad, open label- 
lum, well coloured with bright purple on the 
front, with greenish-yellow side lobes, and an 
almost white column. It is, therefore, a cross 
between C. Trianae and what is now called 
L.-C. Schilleriana. This hybrid was first 
shown by Messrs. Sander and Sons at the 
Royal Horticultural Society, July g, 1895, 
when it received an Award of Merit under the 
name Laelio-Cattleya D. S. Brown. 
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An Interesting Plant. — In the collec- 
tion of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., a curious mal- 
formation has occurred in' Brasso-Laelio-Catt- 
leya Fowleri, in which the last made pseudo- 
bulb has forked, each part carrying a flower 
sheath. This plant is a trigeneric hybrid com- 
posed of three rather dissimilar species, and 
experience has shown that when extreme 
ci'osses are made, the characters often fail to 
properly unite, and malformations occur. In 
this case the forked nature is apparently due, 
not to a bifurcation or splitting of the bud, as 
is usually supposed, but to the development of 
an axillary bud at the base of the new growth. 
This at first grew in conjunction with it, pro- 
ducing a fasciated stem, but on gaining suffi- 
cient strength grew away on its own account, 
thus making two flowering sheathed bulbs 
with one base. 
Instances such as the above are rare, but 
it will prove of interest to give a case of true 
bifurcation, or splitting of a single bud in 
Dendrobium Findlayanum, a branched 
pseudo-bulb of which was sent by Sir Trevor 
La\\Tence to the Scientific Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural on December 13, 1892, 
with the following remark : " Dendrobium 
bulbs often make side-shoots from the eyes 
at the apex of each segment ; but this example 
seems to be a true bifurcation, due, it would 
appear from the bend in the branch, to some 
arrest of growth by a wire or another bulb." 
A microscopical examination appeared to 
confirm the above view, for the stem was 
single at the base, but a slight constriction 
began on one side, then a second appeared 
on the, opposite side higher up, until they 
deepened and met, thereb}- dividing the single 
stem into two. 
Messrs. Charlesworth and Co.'s new Cata- 
logue is just published. It is got up in their 
usual high-class style, and consists of more 
than 70 pages of priced Orchids and their 
hybrids, making altogether a most useful 
book for reference. 
