THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou. VIII.| OCTOBER, 1g00. [No. 94. 
DIES ORCHIDIANZ. 
My remarks on seedling Odontoglossums at page 259 might have been 
prophetic, for we have now a record of young seedlings between O. crispum 
and madrense (p. 276), and at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on 
September 11th Mr. Crawshay submitted two of his seedlings which have 
reached the flowering stage. To be able to exhibit two such plants from 
different crosses at the same time is of itself an achievement, but one of 
them was interesting on another account, being none other than the 
remarkable Odontoglossum Wattianum, whose origin has been the subject 
of a good deal of discussion. Some time ago I heard that a collector was 
on its track, and an importation of it was expected, though I believe it 
never turned up, and the reason is now pretty clear. Mr. Crawshay raised 
it by intercrossing O. Lindleyanum and O. Harryanum, and now that the 
secret has been discovered we must look to our hybridists ~ increase the 
stock. The other seedling alluded to was from a cross betw 
and O. crispum lilacinum, of which two examples have previou owered, 
so that there can be no doubt of the progress which is being made in raising 
Odontoglossums by hand. The Committee made no award in either case. a 
The last teetings of the Royal Horticultural Society and the ; 
Manchester and North of England Orchid Society afford some interesting > . 
matter for reflection. At the meeting of the former society no award was 
made to any individual plant, but at the latter no fewer than eighteen 
exhibits were considered worthy of such distinction, the awards consisting 
of four First-class Certificates, twelve Awards of Merit, and two Cultural 
Commendations. It cannot be affirmed that there was the amount of 
difference between the plants presented at the two meetings which the 
