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260 REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON GENETICS. 
For the arrangement of colours in hybrids from parents of widely 
different characteristics, we must look to Nature’s orderly mode of 
attracting the eyes of the fertilising insects, for though we attempt to 
raise what we expect or want, plant life and creation will always remain 
Fie. 75.—Opontoanossum x VUYLSTEKEI VIVICANS. 
Pale yellow sepals and petals, heavily marked with chestnut-red ; and white lip, 
With one large and some smaller chestnut blotches. 
obedient to Nature’s laws, even though we lead them afar from the path 
originally laid out for them. “So far and no further,’’ we must 
occasionally bear in mind, or we may have some grave disappointments ; 
but even with this in contemplation the Odontoglossum raiser will 
