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cutting, as the blooms last a long time in water. Here also we note the 
charming little Spathoglottis plicata var. Micholitzii, Phaleenopsis violacea, 
Eulophia guineensis, and a few Vandas and allied species, together with 
various botanical species. 
SEEDLING ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
I was interested in seeing the note in your last issue about seedlings of 
Odontoglossum. I was pleased and surprised this year to find I had got a 
crop of seedlings from O. crispum X madrense on two pots. I see entries 
of sowing the seed on January 18 and February 1 of this year. The cross 
appears to have been made about November, 1898, but I did not enter it 
exactly. The O.crispum parent was unfortunately a rather starry form, 
though spotted and rather pretty—the first ever bought by me. The other 
parent was good. This O. madrense has been a most thriving plant with 
me, on a shelf near the glass in the Cool house (and upon a support), and 
seemed to make a most excellent growth in spite of carrying the seed pod. 
E. F. CLark. 
Teignmouth. 
ORCHID FIBRE. 
Orcuips are famous for beauty and general attractiveness, but it is 
not generally known that they have a place in the arts that minister 
to the physical wants of man. But in some parts of the tropics, where 
Orchids abound, a very delicate fibre is prepared by the natives, which they 
use in the preparaton of the many ornaments those races prepare for trade 
with the paler races of man.—Journ. of Hort., 1900, xli., p. 199. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM LADY JANE. 
A COLOURED drawing of this striking variety, which was exhibited at a 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on July 3rd last, is sent from 
the collection of J. Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon. _ It was briefly noted 
in our report (page 250), but deserves a fuller notice, on account of its 
remarkable character. Like O.c. Oakfield Sunrise (noted at page 106) 
there is something morphologically abnormal about the petals, though in 
other respects the two forms are quite dissimilar. The sepals are pure 
white and unspotted, but the petals bear numerous light red-brown spots, 
if they may be so described, which are more or less confluent into broad 
lines or streaks, and extend almost from base to apex, giving the flower a 
most remarkable appearance. Generally speaking, when one set of organs 
