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rooms, Mr. W. Cobb offered another grand blotched form which fell to Sir 
Trevor Lawrence for 150 guineas. It became O. crispum Burford variety, 
but died in 1898, or the following year. The dearest Odontoglossum in 
.1886 was Mr. Knox’s ‘“‘yellow Pescatorei,” put up at Stevens’ Rooms on 
April 14th, 1886, and purchased by Baron Schréder for 168 guineas. This 
was, of course, O. excellens, but in those early days, and for a long time 
after, a hybrid in a state of Nature was a nightmare to many, so they were 
all called species. 
Before the cult of the blotched crispum began seriously, some unspotted 
Pacho forms realised high values, one of the best being ‘‘The Duchess,” 
-shown at the. Royal Horticultural Society by the Duke of Sutherland on 
November r4th, 1882, when it received a First-class Certificate. On 
-November 16th, 1882, half this plant was bought by Sir Trevor Lawrence 
at Stevens’ Rooms for 4o guineas. Sir Trevor’s plant died, and it is a 
regrettable thing that one of the early and finest of unspotted forms is not 
now extant to compare with the renowned varieties of to-day. 
The great furore in blotched crispums may be considered to have begun 
when the variety Luciani was purchased in 1897 by Mr. A. Warburton, who 
‘showed a four-flowered spike at the Royal Horticultural Society on June 
1oth, rg02. It was in very fine form and lifted the variety into high renown, 
plants changing hands at £500 and upwards. O. crispum Pittianum, which 
was bloomed by Mr. T. Rochford and sold to Mr. H. T. Pitt, was exhibited 
by the latter well-known amateur at the Royal Horticultural Society on 
May 5th, 1900. This also leapt rapidly into fame and realised the highest 
price paid for a crispum, or any Orchid, at auction, viz., 1150 guineas, being 
purchased by Baron Schréder in person, and creating a scene of eclat never 
equalled since Mr. H. T. Pitt's sale of duplicates on that 22nd day of 
March, 1906. 
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name. It was shown by 
and purchased at an extremely high price by 
quently sold one small bulb two inches high with a four inch lead for 800 
guineas. This occurred on March 22nd, 1906, the purchaser being Mr. 
‘Warburton. O. crispum Cooksonie created a romantic history as well asa 
very high value. Strange to say, it ought to have fallen to my lot to have 
flowered it. On June 26th, 1900, I was selecting crispums from an impor- 
tation at the late Mr. H. A. Tracy’s Twickenham nursery, and passed this 
plant through my hands five or six times, but discarded it on account of its 
bad shape for potting and its blackish ‘‘ gloriosumish ” appearance. The 
foreman in charge of the importation kept the plant, as he felt I fancied it 
very much. It bloomed in due time, and some of the flowers were worn by 
a lady at a dance and where they attracted the notice of a connoisseur. 
Sander is another variety which made a well-known 
Mr. Sander at the Temple Show, May 26th, 1903, 
Mr. H. T. Pitt, who subse- 
