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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM FROM THE COLOMBIAN ANDES. 

 The flowers vary from pure white to dark rose sometimes marked with crimson spots. 



a neat square package. These packages being 

 flexible adjusted themselves to the mules' 

 backs and could be carried over trails where 

 boxes could not pass. In this manner I had 

 to move the greater part of the Cattleya 

 Trianae that I collected. Closely connected 

 with this is an incident which is still vivid in 

 my memory, one of many, but one which will 

 again show how many things are mingled 

 with orchid collecting, and not only how money 



is expended but how often life itself is at 

 stake in a thousand ways. Yet, strange to 

 say, one gradually becomes accustomed to 

 hardships and dangers until at least one very 

 seldom thinks of accidents which may be seri- 

 ous, or realizes the full import of a possible 

 misadventure until it is actually over. Many 

 a time since, and even at the present writing, 

 when thinking of these things, a sense of 

 horror steals over me. On this particular 



MILTONIA BLEUANA. 



A beautiful hybrid — a cross between Miltonia Yexillaria and M. Roezlii. The flowers, pure white with faint 



lavender in the center, are larger and finer than those of either of the parents. 



