NOVEMBER, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 327 
REMINISCENCES OF MY ORCHIDIC LIFE. 
By DE BARRI CRAWSHAY, O.B.E. 
(Continued from p. 299.) 
ROM ananalysis of the cost ofimported crispums, I find that up to the end 
f of 1886 I paid an average of 13s. 10d. per plant, 400 of them at auction 
averaging 10s. 3d. Of course, auction bidding constantly realised a higher 
price for a particular looking plant than a private contract would, especially 
avhen an individual plant looked a blotched one in the eyes of two or 
more buyers. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM DE BARRI. 
okes of luck resulted from buying especially 
Some very remarkable str 
case, but in many others. 
good-looking plants, not only in my own : 
Perhaps the two best hits in my small lot were on March 3rd, 1888, and on 
October 26th, 1900. On each occasion only three plants were bought 
_crispum Crawshayanum, for 
and the other resulted in O. 
7 800. 
crispum de Barri, for which Mr. Norman C. Cookson offered me £50c 
