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overcome to a remarkable degree the specific 
characters of all the species used with it. 
This has, for instance, in the case of Laelio- 
Cattleya Charlesworthii very much reduced 
the size and form of the desired hybrid — 
which it will be remembered was to be a red 
or scarlet Cattleya — the result obtained was 
not even intermediate between the two 
parents, but only showed a moderate improve- 
ment on cinnabarina, the colour was there, 
but not the shape or size. We must there- 
fore resort to the addition of more of the 
Cattleya aurea characters by making another 
generation with the second use of this species. 
This has been done by crossing Laelio- 
Cattleya Charlesworthii with Cattleya aurea 
and thereby producing Laslio-Cattleya Golden 
Oriole, a hybrid showing great improvement 
in size and form, and a further step towards 
our wished for scarlet Cattleya. 
In Laelio-Cattleya Ceres [Hippolyta (cinna- 
barina X Mossiae) x Mossiae] we have 
another fine hybrid showing an improvement 
on the origineil Hippolyta, and a still finer 
result was obtained by crossing Laelio- 
Cattleya Lady Miller (cinnabarina x granu- 
losa) with Cattleya granulosa, the resulting 
hybrid being exhibited by Messrs. Charles- 
worth and Co. at the Temple Show, igog, 
when it received a First-class Certificate 
under the name Laelio-Cattleya Eurylochus. 
L.-ELIA CINNABARINA IN COMBINATION 
WITH Two Species. 
Laslio-Cattleya Lowii [cinnabarina x 
L.-C. callistoglossa (Warscewiczii x pur- 
purata)] is an example of this class of cinna- 
barina hybrid, and it will be seen that we are 
dealing with plants in which this species still 
comprises one half of the parentage. It has 
been suggested that the allied powers of two 
strong species would tend to hold the 
dominating influence of cinnabarina in check, 
but as the two species together only account 
for half the parentage the result cannot be 
better than in the case of cinnabarina being 
crossed with a single species. 
A Species crossed with a Hybrid 
CONTAINING CINNABARINA. 
Laelio-Cattleya illustris [C. aurea x L. 
Latona (cinnabarina x purpurata)]. In this 
case we have Cattleya aurea crossed with a 
hybrid of Laslia cinnabarina, and thus allow- 
ing this species to account for only a quarter 
of the parentage. This is in many hybrids 
quite sufficient to impart a reddish tinge 
without spoiling the general form or size of 
the flower. A second example may be given 
in Laslio-Cattleya Goldfinch C. aurea x 
L.-C. warnhamensis (cinnabarina x Trianas), 
two varieties of this pretty hybrid having 
received Awards of Merit when shown by 
Lieut.-Col. Sir George Holford. And still 
another may be cited in Laelio-Cattleya 
Apollo (C. Schroderae x L.-C. warnhamensis). 
In this hybrid, which was raised by Mr. C. J. 
Lucas, and exhibited by him at the meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, March 
31st, igo8, the delicate colour of C. Schroderae 
has combined with cinnabarina and produced 
a pleasing soft flesh-coloured flower of large 
size. 
Probably the best result so far achieved in 
this class of hybrid is Brasso-Laelio-Cattleya 
Fowleri [B.-L. Mrs. M. Gratrix (Digbyana x 
cinnabarina) x C. Schroderae]. Here it will 
be seen that the happy combination of 
Cattleya Schroderae with cinnabarina is still 
further improved by the strong influence of 
the large Digbyana lip, and a large, good 
shaped, reddish orange flower has been pro- 
duced. 
L.tLIA CINNABARINA IN COMBINATION 
WITH Three Species. 
Laelio-Cattleya The Duchess [C. Hardyana 
(Warscewiczii x aurea) x L.-C. Hippolyta 
(cinnabarina x Mossis)] is an ideal com- 
bination of species which have all proved 
themselves to be productive of good results 
when used with cinnabarina. Size and shape 
are contributed by Warscewiczii and Mossiae, 
and the inclusion of aurea prevents a too 
