. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. hybridOrchids, for at every meeting one sees new ones. Themost important new hybrid shown on this occasion wasfrom Messrs. Veitch. This was a Laelio-Cattleya namedNyssa, a cross between Lcelia (Catt/eya) crispa and C. labiala,var. Warsceiczii. The progeny is intermediate, both ingrowth and flower, the latter being somewhat larger thanthose of L. crispa. The sepals are a delicate mauve andspread out widely ; the labellum is larger than in L. crispaand quite shows the dilation of that of C. labiala ; the coloris an inten
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. hybridOrchids, for at every meeting one sees new ones. Themost important new hybrid shown on this occasion wasfrom Messrs. Veitch. This was a Laelio-Cattleya namedNyssa, a cross between Lcelia (Catt/eya) crispa and C. labiala,var. Warsceiczii. The progeny is intermediate, both ingrowth and flower, the latter being somewhat larger thanthose of L. crispa. The sepals are a delicate mauve andspread out widely ; the labellum is larger than in L. crispaand quite shows the dilation of that of C. labiala ; the coloris an intensely deep purple-crimson, surrounding an in- September 16, 1891.] Garden and Forest. 437 terior blotch of golden-yellow, and with a well-definedcrisp edging of white. Altogether, the flowers recall thefeatures of the rare , one of the earliest hybridOrchids of Dominys. It is looked upon as one of chief successes in hybridizing. Another hybridCattleya was named C. Behrensiana, from Messrs. Sander,of St. Albans. It is a cross between L. elegans and Fig. 69.—Cereus (Pilocereus) Sargentianus.—See page 436. Loddigesi. The growth is similar to that of L. elegans,but the leaves are broader and shorter. The flower is aslarge as those of the latter ; sepals very pale lilac ; lipbroad, amethyst-crimson on the lower lobe, white on theincurved upper lobes. Though not such a strikingly dis-tinct hybrid as that from Messrs. Veitch, it was much ad-mired. A third hybrid Orchid was Masdevallia Measuresi-una, a pretty and interesting little plant obtained by cross-ing M. Tovarensis with M. amabilis. The flowers are about the size of those of the latter, and with attenuated sepalswhich are white striped and clouded with violet-purple,and the influence of M. 7ovare?isis is seen by the severalflowers it carries on each spike. Cypripedium apiculahim,a cross between C. Boxalli and C. barbatum, was from , of Reading. It has the mottled foliage of C. bar-baium and
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