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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
[ April 15, 1885. 
management nt the Syon Hou=e Gardens, and Mr. J. Smith succeeded 
him. In 1864 the curat'>r*hip of Kew became vacant, and the appoint¬ 
ment was offered by Sir William Hooker to Mr. J. Smith, whose qualifi¬ 
cations for the post were well known. Since then he has ably assisted the 
Directors in maintaining the character of our national garden, and we 
hope he will long enjoy the retirement he has so well earned. 
HYBRID ORCHIDS. 
The hybrid Orchids obtained within the past forty years constitute an 
important addition to the number of attractive cultivated forms, no less 
than 125 having, been raised in that period, and the majority are dis¬ 
tinguished by characters amply sufficient to command the attention of all 
who admire this variable family of plants, some like Calanthe Veitchi 
and Cypripedium Sedeni ranking amongst 'lie most useful Orchids. The 
first recorded hyhril Orchid was one observed by M. Weddell on the 
Con tinent about 1841, which was described as possessing a combination of 
the characters of Aceras anthropophora and Orchis militaris, and was 
therefore regarded as a probable natural hybrid between those species. 
As Orchids were then coming much into favour, it is not surprising that 
some observant cultivators should have given, what proved a difficult 
matter—namely, a little attention to raising them from seed, and though 
several engaged in this, it appears that the principal success was attained 
in the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, where from 1845 to 1850 numbers of 
plants were so raised. Dean Herbert also experimented in artificial 
hybridising amongst Orchids about the same time, but though he states 
that pods were secured from crossing an Orchis with pollen from an 
Ophrys. it does not seem that he succeeded in raising plants from the 
seed. He, however, mentions having seedling Cattleyas, Bletias, Ophrys, 
and Herminium. The first substantial results of such experiments were 
reserved for Mr. Dominy, who commenced hybridising in Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons’ nursery at Exeter in 1853, and first obtained some seedling 
Oattleyas. Owing, however, to the quicker growth of some other seed¬ 
lings which appeared subsequently, Calanthe Domini was the first to 
flower in October 1856, and was followed by C. Veitchi in 1859. About 
twenty others were selected from others which flowered in succeeding 
years, and were found sufficiently distinct to merit new names. Since 
then Mr. Seden has been remarkably successful in Messrs. J. Veitch and 
Sons’ nursery at Chelsea, where large numbers of seedlings have been 
raised, and up to the present time over sixty handsome hybrids have been 
flowered and named. It is surprising that amateurs have done so little, 
for comparatively few have paid any attention to the matter. Amongst 
those, however, who have made some good additions to the list, must be 
named Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Mr. R. Warner, Mr. J. C. 
Bowring, Mr. J. C. Cookson, Mr. W. Swan, M. Alfred Bleu, and 
Mr. Cross. 
The following list contains all the hybrids concerning which any 
information could be obtained up to the present time, the seed-hearing 
parent is named first, and the pollen parent second, in all Mr. Seden’s 
hybrids, and in other cases also where it could be ascertained. 
MR. DOMINY’S HYBRIDS. 
Hybbid. 
Pabents. 
Aerides hybridum . 
An*ctochilus Dominii 
Calanthe Dominii . 
Veitchi . 
Cattleya Brabanti® 
Devoniensis . 
Dominii . 
exoniensis 
Felix 
hybrida . 
hybrida maculata 
Manglesi. 
Pilcheri . 
Pilcheri alba . 
qumqaecolor . 
Sidniana . 
Cypripedium Dominii 
Harrisianum . 
vexillarium 
Dendrobium Dominii 
Goodvera Veitchi , 
L®lia Veitchiana . 
Phaius irroratus . 
A. affine — A. Fieldingi 
A. xanthophyllus — Goodyera discolor 
C. Masuca — C. furcata 
vestita — Limatodes rosea 
C. Loddigesi — Acklandi® 
crispa — guttata 
maxima — amethystina 
Mossi® — L®lia purpurata 
crispa — Regnelli 
granulosa — Harrisoni® 
guttata — intermedia 
Mossi® — Loddigesii 
crispa — Perrini 
crispa — Perrini 
Acklandi® — Forbesi 
crispa — granulosa 
C. Pearcei — caudatum 
barhatum — villosum 
barbatum — Fairrieanum 
D. nobile — moniliforme 
Goodyera discolor — Anmctochilis Veitchi® 
Cattleya labiata — C. crispa 
P. grandifolius — Calanthe vestita 
Pabents. 
C. Schlimi — Dominii 
biflorum — Lowi 
longifolium — Sedeni 
Sedeni — Schlimi album 
barbatum — Stonei 
villosum — hirsutum 
Roezli — caudatum 
insigne Maulei — Spicerianum 
Roezli — Schlimi album 
villosum — Lowi 
Lowi — Veitchi 
Hooker® — barbatum 
venustum pardinum — concolor 
niveum — Druryi 
Veitchi — Stonei 
villosum — insigne Maulei 
Harrisianum — insigne Maulei 
Harrisianum — insigne Maulei 
Roezli — Schlimi 
biflorum — hirsutissimum 
Lowi — Hooker® 
venustum — Lowi 
caudatum — Sedeni 
Schlimi — longifolium 
longifolium — Schlimi 
Schlimi album — longifolium 
barbatum — Imvigatum 
barbatum — Veitchi 
barbatum — concolor 
barbatum — concolor 
Argus — villosum 
D. japonicum — heterocarpum 
endocharis — nobile 
Wardianum — lituiflorum 
Huttoni — sanguinolentum 
aureum — nobile 
L. purpurata — Cattleya labiata 
purpurata — C. gigas 
Cattleya Mossi® — L. purpurata 
L. cinnabarina — Pilcheri 
Cattleya Acklandi® — L. elegans 
superba — L. Devoniensis 
M. amabilis — Veitchi 
Veitchi — Davisi 
P. grandifolius — Calanthe vestita 
P. amabilis — rosea 
Htbbid. 
Cypripedium albo-pur- 
pureum 
calanthum 
calurum . , 
cardinale. 
euryandrum . 
Germinyanuoi 
grande 
Leeanum superbum 
leucorrhodum . 
lucidum . 
macropterum . 
marmorophyllum . 
Marshallianum 
microchilum . 
Morgani® 
nitens 
oenanthum 
„ superhum 
porphyreum . 
porphyrochlamys . 
porphyrospilum 
pycnopterum . 
Schroeder® 
Sedeni 
Sedeni 
Sedeni candidulum. 
selligerum tfc majus 
superciliare . 
tessellatum 
„ porphyreum 
vernixium 
Dendrobium endocharis 
euosmum . 
micans . . . 
rhodostoma . . 
splendidissimum 
L®lia bella 
callistoglossa . 
Canhamiana . 
flammea . 
Philhrickiana . 
Sedeni 
Masdevallia Chelsoni . 
Gairiana . 
Phaius irroratus pur- 
pureus . 
Phalmnopsis intermedia 
Portei . 
Zygopetalum penta- 
chromum . 
Sedeni 
Z. Mackayi — maxillare 
maxillare — Mackayi 
OTHER RAISERS’ HYBRIDS. • 
Calanthe Alexanderi 
Cooksoni . 
porphyrea . 
Sandhurstiana 
Cattleya calummata 
Mitcheli . 
veriflora . 
Cypripedium Arthurianum 
Ashburtoni® . 
chloroneurum 
conchiferum . 
Crossianum 
gemmiferum . 
hybridum 
Laforcadei 
Leeanum 
meirax . 
melanophthalmum . 
politum . 
Sallieri . 
Seedling No. 1 
stenophyllum . 
Swanianum 
Williamsianum 
Dendrobium Ainsworthi 
Leechianum . 
Zygopetalum Clayi 
C. Veitchi — vestita rubro-oculata. 
Veitchi — vestita luteo-oculata. 
Limatodes labrosa — C. vestita rubro-oculata 
L. rosea — C. vestita rubro-oculata 
C. intermedia — Acklandi® 
quadricolor — guttata Leopoldi 
labiata — Trian® 
C. Fairrieanum — insigne 
insigne — barbatum 
not recorded 
caricinum — Roezli 
venustum — insigne 
Hooker® — purpuratum 
Stonei — barbatum 
Cbantini — barbatum 
Spicerianum — insigne punctatissimum 
not recorded 
barbatum superbum — venustum 
villosum — insigne 
javanicum — superbiens 
Schlimi — caricinum 
Dayanum — barbatum 
villosum — Harrisianum (?) 
nobile — aureum 
nobile — aureum 
Z. crinitum — maxillare 
MR. SEDEN’S HYBRIDS. 
SUPPOSED NATURAL HYBRIDS. 
Calanthe bella 
lentiginosa 
Sedeni 
Cattleya Amesiana 
Chamberlaini . 
Fausta 
Marstersoni® . 
Mardelli . 
porph yrophlebia 
triophthalma . 
suavior . 
Veitchiana 
Chysis Chelsoni 
Sedeni . 
C. Turneri — Veitchi 
Limatodes labrosa — Calanthe Veitchi 
Veitchi — vestita 
C. crispa — maxima 
Leopoldi — C. Dowiana 
Loddigesi — exoniensis 
Loddigesi — labiata 
speciosissima — Devoniensis 
intermedia — superba 
surerba — exoniensis 
Mendeli — intermedia 
crispa — labiata 
C, bractescens — aurea 
Limminghi — bractescens 
Anguloa dubia . . 
Cattleya Whitei 
Cceloglossum Erdingeri. 
Gymnadenia intermedia 
Strampfii . 
L®lia Crawshayana 
Dormanniana 
Leeana 
Nigritella brachystachya 
Henfleri . 
megastachya . 
micrantha 
Buaveolens 
A. uniflora — Clowi-ei 
C. labiata — Scbilleriana 
C. viride — Orchis sambucina 
G. conopsea — odoratissima 
G. odoratiBsima — Coeloglossum albidum 
L. albida — anceps 
Cattleya hicolor — L. pumila 
Cattleya marginata (?) 
Gymnadenia sub-conopsea — N. nigra 
or N. nigra — N. suaveolens 
G. super-conopsea — N. nigra, or G. conopsea 
— N. suaveolens 
N. nigra — G. albida 
N. nigra — G. conopsea 
