Plate 473. 



CATTLEYA HYBRIDA PICTA. 



This is one of the results of Mr. Dominy's earliest efforts in the hybridization of 

 Orchids, having been raised at the Exeter establishment of Messrs. James Yeitch and Sons 

 so long ago as 1855 or 185G. It was obtained from Cattleya guttata and C. intermedia, 

 the latter being believed to be the pollen parent. 



In habit the plant is as well-nigh intermediate as can be between the two parents. 

 The stems or pseudobulbs are longer and more slender than those of C. intermedia, and 

 shorter and stouter than those of C. guttata. The leaves, too, which are produced in 

 pairs and are spreading, have the characteristic coriaceous texture and oblong form of 

 those of the parents, between which they are intermediate in size. 



The plant flowers in September and October, and is thus a most useful addition to 

 our autumn-flowering Cattleyas. Of its further floral merits our illustration of this fine 

 novelty must speak for itself. We are indebted to Messrs. James Veitch and Sons for 

 the subject of our plate. 



Plate 474. 

 RHODODENDRON DAVIESII. 



This striking and useful novelty is a hybrid obtained from R. Retusum crossed with 

 R. Javanicum. It is of a very bushy habit, and free growing; the foliage of a leathery 

 texture, dark glossy green in colour, and of medium size. The flowers are of a lustrous 

 orange-red colour, produced in trusses which usually expand in succession, truss after 

 truss, and in this way a plant may continue in flower for two or three months. 



We are indebted to the raisers— Messrs. Isaac Davies and Co., Brook Lane Nursery, 

 Ormskirk — for the opportunity of figuring this fine novelty ; and to show how continuous 

 in bloom is this new form, the raisers exhibited a plant of it at Manchester on the 27th 

 of April last, in London on May 25th, and it continued to flower until the middle of 

 August. First-class Certificates of Merit have been awarded to it by the Manchester 

 Botanical Society and the Royal Botanical Society of London. 



There is now a good group of these hybrid Rhododendrons, and they are remarkably 

 well suited for warm greenhouse culture. The fact that they flower so early and 

 continuously is one of their chief recommendations. 



