32 THE ORCHID REVIEW. __ (Feervary, 1918 
to grow these diverse seedlings well after germination, and ultimately q 
young man was brought over from England for the purpose. 
There is another place, thé name of which I have forgotten, where Dr 3 
Burgeff’s experiments are being followed up, and I heard that in 1913 they 
had already experienced considerable success. Patience and devotion at | 
given opportunities will no doubt help in developing a practical side to_ 
these promising experiments. A. BEER. 
| ORCHIDS FROM eweuURC: 
BEAUTIFUL series of Odontoglossums and Odontiodas has been sent 
from the collection of Richard Ashworth, Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch, — 
President of the Manchester & North of England Orchid Society (gr. Mr, © 
S. Davenport), all of them, it is remarked, being Lancashire-grown flowers, 
not bought from the South of England. An Odontoglossum crispum 
of the Bonnyanum type is of excellent shape, and has broad, clear white - 
segments, with a large red-brown blotch above the middle of each sepal 
and on the front of the lip, the petals being unspotted. O. eximium | 
purpuratum is of good shape, heavily blotched with purple on all the 
segments—those on the petals taking the form of a broad zone—with a 
number of purple splashes on the white ground. Three forms of 0.7 
Cervantesii show some of the variation to which this species is subject 
O. c. decorum is a fine form with comparatively few markings on the lip, 
and O. c. punctatum has the zone of markings rather closely arranged on 
the lower part of the segments, with rather small markings on the margin — 
and disc of the lip. A third has the lip rather deeply lobed, with large : 
purple blotches, those on the disc being arranged in broad zones. - It might — 
be called O. c. ashlandense. 
forms. 
The four Odontiodas are brilliantly-coloured 
O. Rouge-Dragon is one of the chelseiensis type, possibly a variety | 
of it, having light purple sepals and petals, with some light markings at | 
the margin and apex, and a well-spotted lip, with a white apex and some ~ 
orange-yellow on the disc. The spike bore fifteen flowers. O. Queen 
Mary, from a spike of twenty flowers, has very deep red segments, margined 
and tipped with yellow, and the apex of the lip clear yellow. O. Schroederi, 
from a spike of twenty flowers, is dark scarlet, with yellow markings, chiefly 
atranged in a zone within the margin of the segments, the lip being deep 
yellow with some red markings round the crest. Lastly, O. luminosa 
(Odm. Rossii rubescens X Oda. Charlesworthii) is a very distinct flower, 
with dark crimson-brown sepals and petals, recalling those of the Odontioda 
parent, and an ovate, purple lip, with two yellow blotches on either side of 
the 4-lobed crimson crest. It forms a very interesting series, 
