122 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [June, 1918 
One particularly brilliant form has been called O. Peerless var. James 
McNab, and has a great red-brown zone of colour on the lower two-thirds 
of the segments, that on the lip being smaller, and the ground colour white, 
As showing the method of workiug for colour, there was a batch of seedlings 
derived from Odontoglossum eximillus X Odontioda Coronation, one of 
which was just opening its first flower. It showed large, ruby-red blotches 
on a whitish ground, the margin being freckled with rose. This brilliant 
acquisition was called Odontioda Juno, and received a Preliminary 
Commendation from the R.H.S. a few days later. 
There are four large Odontoglossum houses extending from the Corridor, 
and these contain a series of vigorous plants in all stages, the smaller being 
largely accommodated on broad shelves over the central path. In two of them 
there was a good display of bloom, and the third contained many plants ot 
flowering size, many of them throwing up spikes. The houses are built with 
every modern convenience, open stages, pipes shielded with tiles or brick- 
work, top and side ventilation, the former lantern-fashion, so that it can be 
restricted as much as necessary, lath blinds extending laterally on rollers, 
and also canvas shading where necessary, the cultural arrangements being 
excellent in every respect. 
In these houses many interesting things were in bloom, the Miltonias 
forming a particularly brilliant display. The bulk of the flowering plants, 
however, were in the large north house, which we shall come to presently. 
The Miltonias included many seedling M. vexillaria, M. v. gigantea, of 
particularly brilliant colour and with two spikes of seven flowers each, the 
brilliant M. v. memoria G. D. Owen, with a six-flowered spike, several 
plants of the handsome M. Frank Reader, with a great ruby-red blotch on 
the lip, M. J. Gurney Fowler, with a large, almost blackish-purple blotch» 
M. Princess Mary, a particularly beautiful blush form with a rose-purple . 
radiating blotch and a rosy stain at the base of the petals, the rare M. 
Phalaenopsis, and a nice lot of M. Bleuana. 
In the next houses we noted many seedling O. crispum, raised from 
choice blotched parents, and showing much variation in the amount and 
colour of the blotching. Other batches showed similar variation, for the 
parentage can be traced by means of numbers, each seedling bearing a label 
on which is recorded the number of the cross. Without this number lt 
would in many cases be impossible to trace the parentage, and it throws 
much light on the difficulty of tracing the parentage of natural hybrids by 
comparing their characters. Other good things pointed out were some 
handsomely blotched forms of O. Victory, O. Nora, and forms of the white 
QO. promerens xanthotes. In the latter the variation is limited to siz€ and 
shape and the amount of the yellow blotching. 
Among the Odontiodas we noted examples of the very distinct O- 
