THE ORCHID REVIEW. 63 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Upper Clapton, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a fine group, including Cattleya Eldorado, Angrecum sesquipe- 
dale, Phaleenopsis X intermedia Brymeriana, Odontoglossum crispum and 
others, Cypripedium X Leeanum giganteum, C. x L. superbum, C. x 
Madame Georges Truffaut, and other fine things. 
Messrs. Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, showed a 
pretty form of Odontoglossum crispum and two of Cypripedium xX insigne, 
and Cochlioda X miniata, a supposed natural hybrid between C. vulcanica 
and C. Neetzliana. A Cultural Commendation was given to Cochlioda 
vulcanica maxima, a large dark variety, and an Award of Merit to Cypri- 
pedium X Lebaudyanum (Haynaldianum ¢ xX philippinense 3), a hand- 
some form, intermediate between the two parents. 
M. Otto Froebel, Zurich, sent a form of Odontoglossum xX Ander- 
sonianum with very few spots on the segments. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI: ARE VARIETIES 
PERMANENT ? 
I SEND you a spray of Odontoglossum Pescatorei with spotted flowers, 
which is especially interesting, as I believe it is an example of a plant 
of a choice variety occasionally showing a reversion to the ordinary type. 
I bought it at Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms last year, and previous 
to its sale Mr. Morris announced that it was a plant sold at the Owens’ sale 
asa specially fine spotted variety, named Vervaetie, for thirty or forty 
guineas, but had been returned by the buyers, on the ground that they had 
flowered it and proved it to be merely an ordinary variety without spots. If 
the foregoing be correct, the present flower would seem to be a somewhat 
forcible argument against the views expressed on page 5 of your January 
number, and it is evident that a flower of a choice variety cannot “ be relied 
upon to be repeated year after year.” 
Yours faithfully, 
C. Witson POTTER. 
Croydon. ‘a 
[The inflorescence sent has ten flowers, measuring 2 inches across their 
broadest diameter, the sepals having one roundish red-purple spot above 
the middle, 2—3 lin. across, and the lip two to four smaller ones, more or 
less suffused, immediately in front of the crest. The petals are white, 
€xcept that four have a single small spot, while, conversely, six sepals have 
each lost the spot, while one has two spots. Ourrecord of the price fetched 
by the variety Vervaetiz at the Selwood sale (supra, 1k, 2 206) is eleven 
Suineas. We would ask Mr. Potter to note the behaviour of this plant in 
future years, as it is important that the questions involved should be set at 
