Cookson won a first-class certificate of the Royal Horticultural
Society. It flowered within three years of fertilizing. As a genus,
perhaps, Dendrobiums are readiest to show. Plants have actually been
"pricked out" within two months of sowing, and they have bloomed within
the fourth year. Phajus and Calanthe rank next for rapid development.
Masdevallia, Chysis, and Cypripedium require four to five years, Lycaste
seven to eight, Loelia and Cattleya ten to twelve. These are Mr.
Veitch's calculations in a rough way, but there are endless exceptions,
of course. Thus his _Loelia triophthalma_ flowered in its eighth
season, whilst his _Loelia caloglossa_ delayed till its nineteenth.
The genus _Zygopetalum_, which plays odd tricks in hybridizing, as I
have mentioned, is curious in this matter also. _Z. maxillare_ crossed
with _Z. Mackayi_ demands five years to bloom, but _vice versâ_ nine
years. There is a case somewhat similar, however, among the Cypripeds.
_C. Schlimii_ crossed with _C. longifolium_ flowers in four years, but
_vice versâ_ in six. It is not to be disputed, therefore, that the
hybridizer's reward is rather slow in coming; the more earnestly should
he take measures to ensure, so far as is possible, that it be worth
waiting for.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 9: Mr. Cookson writes to me: "Give some of the credit to my
present gardener, William Murray, who is entitled to a large proportion,
at least."]
INDEX.
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Aerides Lawrenciæ 160
Angræcum arcuatum 134
" caudatum 135
" Duchailluianum 134
" Ellisii 135
" falcatum 133
" Kotschyi 135
" Leonis 135
" Sanderianum 134
" Scottianum 135
" sesquipedale (Æranthus sesquipedalis) 135
Anomatheca cruenta 11
Begonia coralina 195
Begonias 86
Brassias 207
Brassavola Digbyana 128
Bulbophyllum barbigerum 169
" Beccarii 169
" Dearei 170
" Godseffianum 170
" Lobbii 170
Bullthorn acacia 124
Calanthe Alexanderii 246
" Dominii 214
" Sedeni 215
" Veitchii 215
Catasetum barbatum 123
" Bungerothi (C. pileatum) 123
" callosum 123
" fimbriatum 123
Cattleya Acklandiæ 154
" amethystoglossa 154
" aurea 115
" Brymeriana 232
" Dowiana 115, 151
" Hardyana 118
" hybrida 214
" labiata 111
" Lawrenceana 92
" Mendellii 117
" " fly 117
" Mossiæ 111
" Sanderiana 118
" Skinneri alba 119
" superba 152
" Trianæ 111, 201
" violacea 110
Coelogene cristata 160
" Dayana 161
" pandurata 160
" Sanderiana 161
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Collectors:--
Arnold 27, 28, 70, 180, 181
Bartholomeus 122, 180
Bestwood 180
Chaillu, M. Du 134
Chesterton 180, 181
Clarke 181
Digance 181
Dressel 77
Endres 70
Ericksson 32, 33
Falkenberg 69
Forstermann 162
Gardner 174, 175, 181
Hartweg 67
Humblot 133
Kerbach 72, 180
Klaboch 70, 105, 180
Kromer 95, 98, 99
Lawrenceson 181
Micholitz 30, 31
Osmers 94, 181
Oversluys 163, 180
Roebelin 140, 160
Roezl 66, 75, 76, 105, 139, 204, 205
Schroeder 70
Seyler 100
Smith 180, 181
Steigfers 99
Swainson 173-175, 177, 179, 181
Wallace 35
Wallis 70
Weir 67
Cypripedium calceolus 82, 224, 225
" candidum 82
" Curtisi 32
" Fairieanum 223
" guttatum 82
" insigne 83, 84, 108
" macranthum 82
" niveum 85
" parviflorum 82
" planifolium 87
" pubescens 82
" purpuratum 223
" Sedeni 228
" spectabile 82
" Spicerianum 83, 85
" vexillarium 238
Cymbidium Lowianum 195
" Albertesii 131
Dendrobium atro-violaceum 131
" bigibbum 168
" Broomfieldianum 131
" Brymerianum 127
" Forstermanni 127
" Goldiei 130
" heterocarpum 230
" Johannis 168
" luteolum 195
" nobile nobilius 128
" " Cooksoni 129
" " Sanderianum 129
" phaloenopsis 168
" " Schroederianum 29
" rhodopterygium 127
" superbiens 168
" Wardianum 125
Disa Cooperi 166
" discolor 166
" grandiflora 165
" racemosa 165
Epidendrum bicornutum 40
" O'Brienianum 220
" prismatocarpum 167
" radicans 167
" Randii 152
" rhizophorum 167
Frogs, green, value of 13
Galleandra Devoniana 156
Grammatophyllum speciosum 171
" Measureseanum 171
" multiflorum 172
Hybridizing 210
Lycaste Skinneri 79-81, 206
" " alba 79, 81
" aromatica 80
" cruenta 81
Loelia anceps 109, 120, 122
" elegans 153
" Maynardii 218
" purpurata 153, 154
" guttata Leopoldi 152, 153, 154
" anceps alba 122
" " Amesiana 109
Masdevallia Livingstoniana 140
" Schlimii 76
" Tovarensis 27
Odontoglossum Alexandræ 39, 67, 71
" citrosmum 58
" grande 107
" Hallii 77
" Harryanum 75
" Hybrids 64, 78, 108, 231
" noeveum 77
" ramossissimum (coeleste) 34
" Roezlii (Miltonia Roezlii) 64
" Schlieperianum 107
" vexillarium (Miltonia vexillaria) 104
" Williamsi 107
Oncidium cibolletum 116
" crispum 47
" cucullatum 230
" fuscatum 90
" Jonesianum 116
" juncifolium 39
" Lanceanum 164
" luridum 39
" macranthum 88
" papilio 164
" sculptum 89
" serratum 89
" splendidum 162, 163
" superbiens 89
Peristeria elata 138
Phajus Cooksoni 219
" Humblotii 133
" irroratus 219
" purpureus 219
" tuberculosus 133
Phaloenopsis 54
" amabilis 158
" cornucervi 159
" F.L. Ames 221
" Harriettæ 221
" intermedia 221
" Luddemanniana 244
" Manni 159
" Portei 159
" Sanderiana 159
" Schilleriana 158
" speciosa 157
" tetraspis 156
Renanthera coccinea 113, 146, 147
Roraima Mountain 77, 94
Schomburgkia tibicinis 124
Sobralias 196
Sophro-Cattleya Batemaniana 218
Thanatophore 92
Utricularia Campbelli 199
Vanda limbata 144
" Lowii 143, 148
" teres 143, 144