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canvas or tiffany blinds. Where lath-roller 

 blinds are in use it will also be found advis- 

 able to whitewash the glass during the 

 brightest of the summer weather. 



During the resting season, which may 

 roughly be stated to extend from October to 

 February, the temperature of the house may 

 be lowered to 65 or 70 degrees. On frosty 

 nights 60 degrees will be safe if the 

 atmosphere is proportionally drier ; a high 

 temperature with a dry atmosphere is always 

 conducive to the welfare of thrips, and these, 

 as cultivators know only too well, do con- 

 siderable damage to the foliage of Orchids. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



Cattleya Felicity (Miss Harris x 

 AUREA). — The former parent of this hybrid- 

 is the result of crossing Cattleya Schilleriana 

 with Cattleya Mossiae, an example receiving 

 a First-class Certificate at the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, September 17th, 1889. It is 

 often confused with Cattleya Vulcan, a hybrid 

 between C. Gaskelliana and C. intermedia, 

 and first shown in 1905. In the new C. 

 Felicity recently exhibited by Messrs. Man- 

 sell and Hatcher, the flower has inherited 

 much of the rich crimson-purple of C. Schil- 

 leriana, the labellum showing the broad hp 

 of this species and also the rich colour 

 derived from C. aurea. The flower is of thick 

 texture and likely to prove of long-lasting 

 properties. It is an improvem.ent on the well- 

 known Cattleya F. W. Wigan. 



Brasso-Cattleya Faith (B. Perrinii x 

 C. LeopOLDII). — A very useful small-flower- 

 ing hybrid in which both parents are equally 

 shown. The narrow greenish sepals and 

 petals are spotted with red, the roundish 

 labellum of a soft-rose colour with lineal 

 markings of purple spots. This fragrant 

 primary hybrid has been raised in the collec- 

 tion of F. J. Hanbury, Esq., Brockhurst, East 

 Grinstead, where it finds a companion m 

 B.-C. Joan (B. Perrinii x C. Warscewiczii) 

 first flowered by Mr. Hanbury, August, 1909. 

 B.-C. belasrensis (B. Perrinii x C. guttata) is a 

 very similar hybrid to B.-C. Faith. 



L/ELIO-CATTLEYA SYLVIA. 



( See Coloured Plate.) 

 cinnabarina Mossiae Trianae xanthina 



Hippolyta Ascania 



SYLVIA 



L^LIO- CATTLEYA HIPPOLYTA, 

 the seed-bearing parent of this bright- 

 coloured hybrid, has been a popular 

 plant for the last twenty or more years. The 

 reverse cross, Mossiae x cinnabarina, origin- 

 ally named Laelio-Cattleya Phoebe, has been 

 known for almost as many years, but as all 

 hybrids resulting from the crossing, in which- 

 ever way, of the same two species must bear 

 but one name, and that the earliest, the name 

 Phoebe is suppressed in favour of Hippolyta. 



Lslio-Cattleya Ascania, the result of 

 crossing Cattleya TrianjE with Laelia xanthina, 

 first appeared in 1893. C. Trianae in its 

 tyjDical form has sepals and petals of a very 

 light rose-purple tint, and L. xanthina has 

 yellow, or greenish-yellow flowers. Several 

 of the hybrids between these two species have 

 produced yellow-coloured flowers, and it was 

 from one of these that Laslio-Cattleya Sylvia 

 was raised. 



As four species are included in the 

 parentage various varieties of L.-C. Sylvia are 

 certain to occur, the form and colour will 

 rarely be exactly alike in any two flowers. 

 The one of which we give a coloured illus- 

 tration was raised by Messrs. Charlesworth 

 and Co., and received a First-class Certificate 

 when exhibited by them at the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, July 4th, 1911. Yellow- 

 flowered Orchids are particularly scarce, and 

 anyone who carefully examines a large group 

 of flowers for this colour will prove the truth 

 of this statement. 



This rare hybrid is now in the important 

 collection of F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The 

 Shrubbery, Oxford, where it grows happily in 

 company with many other Orchid gems. 



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