HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSA, 953 
anum, created by the mingling of the violet-purple of Hdwardi, with a 
lilac-rosy crispum. 
We must carefully study these colour changes, try to advance upon 
them, and add form and size to those hybrids vet lacking in these elements 
of beauty, and here I may state that form must be pre-eminent. 
BLoTCHED CRISPUMS ARE HyBRIDs. 
I must now refer to this phase of my subject. With most people, 
they pass as “sports,” or variations of the species, but how ean crispwin 
Fic. 67.—O. percuttum ‘CyBetx.’? (Orchid Review.) 
White ; markings of rich rosy purple-brown. 
as a species be all and everything that people fancy? We know that it 
erows in company with many other species, therefore itis only reasonable 
to suppose that hybrids and crosses have been made, during times un- 
known, by thousands, owing to the ‘erratic manner in which an insect 
searches for honey; Evolution and Reversion going on together, totally 
disregarded by “ the bees.” 
No doubtit is not a primary hybrid, that having been proved by all those 
yet raised, but of very complex parentage ; we all hope some day it may be 
proved, for to all Odontoglosswm raisers it is the acme of their cult ; and 
whoever first succeeds in raising blotched crispums in numbers and of 
good quality will have earned the gratitude and hatred of the owners of 
