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been ooneidered desirable, 
i-^.irtion in the woodwor^ and 
in the glass area enabled the 
* » enioT the light so essential to 
* iTOirth The houses were also pro- 
Sj'Xthe means of ample jeft^^tion 
-V- bat of these were fitted with 
^ that opened direct on to the 
C" n-iT pipe* for the purpose of warming 
I M it made its way into the house. 
,, time the value of fibrous peat of 
* quditv and good sphagnum moss for 
r flfhjtal kinds was well known, and 
> fciiriedge acted upon. The practice 
moat Buooessful growers did not 
jirr Joatly from that which now obtains 
jj proent time, except that the using 
j ^ Se finest peat for orchids has ren- 
^ the use of osmunda and polypodium 
i'^ oeessary. The employment of 
cfC laves in the preparation of orchid 
Is a quite recent innovation, but 
■ 3 * fiiiacy with regard to the use of manu- 
rX wtter in the cultivation of orchids has 
[ TZ wn with us, and will probably en- 
hv to the end. 
i^ivators at the present day have, in 
ilimportant work of combating insect 
i-vu, in immense advantage, as compared 
j past generations of ordhid growers. 
I '*f was known of the value of quaran- 
in bygone days, and plants were in- 
‘:iced to collections without regard to 
•^r being infested or not, and again and 
Kh-'. were orchids subjected to insect at- 
^ a that might easily have been avoided. 
r-l the plants of insects to which they 
■» ^come a prey was no light matter, 
' r^^ging is very tedious, and fumigat- 
z lilli the materials that were then avail- 
* far from effective. Now, with the 
* . that vapourising with nicotine 
jmndB 18 so well able to render, 
- fc-pmg of insect pests in subjection 
■Jx special diffi- 
century 
,^«lture ertended with considerable 
“ wmparatively short 
r p oolteions became fairly nume- 
■ ■ ^ noteworthy among the 
C- B- WarLr’s, 
‘"'■i of nr vIj*’ ® ® great 
of Mr. William 
at Enfield; Mr. J. Day, 
'* r:atdMr'w T®”* MaL 
f flwtio^ Ul Leatherhead. 
^ later 
them oonspicuous 
’*»lar Ge^an pr Lieut.- 
Mr H a* Westonbirt 
» wnstnnr* and rais- 
!"■ ■■ Ufono aaT>rise; of 
' '• Eeh^ Igardener, Mr. E. 
V\l p '.'ows; of Sir Trevor Law 
fH- ai 
t\** for the fine 1 1**®*®® 'f contains, as 
:^'.I>okeoter‘>\®«’®® kinds; 
^ ^own; of ^ ^rulea is especially 
-Jt S- «^Pmanl (gardener" 
. for i^ choir - especially 
Bart, (gardener, Mr. J. Collier), Gatton 
Park, and Mr. H. T. Pitt, Stamford Hill; 
Mr. W. Birkenshaw (gardener Mr. T. J. 
Barker), Hessle; Mr. C. J. Lucas (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. G. Duncan) Warnham Court; 
Mr. W. Thompson (gardener, Mr. Stevens), 
Stone Hall; and Mr. W. Lee, Plumpton 
Hall. 
Hybridisation. 
One of the most interesting of the several 
aspects of the orchid cult is the creation of 
new forms, wihether by hybridisation or 
cross-fertilisation. It may, at first sight, 
appear rather tedious watching the growth 
of the seedlings from the time of making 
their appearance until they reach the 
flowering stage, especially when, as in the 
case of Lselia caloglossa, this extends over 
nineteen years. This long period was, how¬ 
ever, quitie exceptional even in the early 
hybridising Cattleya guttata and C. Lod- 
digesi, and obtained C. hybrida, of which 
five plants were shown at a meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society held in August, 
1859. C. Dominiana, aL^ from the same 
raiser, was shown at a meeting three 
months later. Still more noteworthy, from 
the decorative point of view, was Calanthe 
Veitchi, a hybrid between C. rosea and C. 
vestita, which flow^ered in 1859, and was 
exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Hor¬ 
ticultural Society in December of that year, 
and received a First Class Certificate. In 
1867 Phaius irroratus, a bigeneric hybrid, 
of which the parents were Calanthe ves¬ 
tita and Phaius grandifolius, and another 
of Dominy’s successes, flowered. This was 
followed during the next few years by Cyp- 
ripedium Harrisianum, C. vexiUarium, and 
Lselio-cattleya Dominiana, a bigeneric hy- 
ODONTIODA BRADSHAWI^. 
A finely-flowered example of the orange hybrid between Cochlioda Noetzliana and Odonto- 
glo^um crispum. This specimen was in a six-inch pot. 
•*•<« Seven!rt^ (gardener, Mr. 
«< w*** *Pf®ndid ,®P®®*®' in- 
in wl-r (g^^dener, Mr. 
“any fine 
days of raising seedling oreftuds, and the 
rate at which seedlings attain the strength 
essential to flower production has been 
considerably accelerated by modern 
methods of procedure. lit is, however, the 
common experience of raisers that the 
slightest impatience soon disappears, and 
the growth of the plants is watched with 
both pleasure and interest. That this is 
the case is proved to demonstration by the 
large number of growers who have engaged 
in the pleasant, and, it may be hoped, pro¬ 
fitable work of raising seedlings. 
The first hybrid orchids raised in this 
country were the result of the intelligence 
and manipulative skill of John Dominy, 
who long occupied an important position 
in the nurseries of Messrs. J. Veitch and 
Sons, and according to the available 
records, commenced his work of hybri¬ 
disation exactly sixty years ago. He began by 
brid between Cattleya Dowiana and Lselia 
purpurata, and of great beauty. 
Before the last of the hybrids obtained 
from Dominy’s earliest crosses had flowered 
new hybrids from other raisers bloomed, a 
point of interest as evidence that the work 
of raising seedling orchids w'as being taken 
up. There were, for instance, Cypripe- 
dium Ashburtonise and C. Crossianum, 
which were raised at Melehet Court, and 
had C. insigne as one of their parents; 
Chysis Sedeni and Zygopetalum Sedeui, 
raised by Mr. Seden in the Chelsea Nur¬ 
series; Dendrobium Ainsworthi, a hybrid 
between D. nobile and D. aureum, raised 
in Dr. Ainsworth’s eollection at Manches¬ 
ter ; and Zygopetalum Clayi, a hybrid 
between Z. crinitum and Z. maxillare in 
Colonel Clay’s collection at Birkenhead. In 
1878 the first hybrid lycaste flowered in 
Mr. William MarshaiVs collection at 
