Vee ORG KEVEEW, 
VOL. ALA, | APRIL, tiott. [No. 220. 
OUR NOTE BOOK, 
Our hybridists are making such rapid progress that it becomes difficult to 
keep up with the match of events, and the present month gives us at least 
four striking novelties to record. Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. have raised 
another fine hybrid from Odontoglossum Rossii rubescens, which, under 
the name of O. Jeanette, received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. 
on March 14th. O.amabile heatonensis was the pollen parent, and while 
considerably modifying the details of the flower it was not sufficient to 
obliterate the general character of the seed parent, which promises to be of 
great value for hybridising purposes, though we believe it is not one of the 
easiest to manipulate. O. Jeanette is one of the most promising additions 
to this beautiful genus, as may be seen from the illustration at page 105, 
where its characters are fully described. 
That Odontioda is the coming genus is increasingly evident, for three 
handsome additions have appeared since our last notes were written. M. 
Henri Graire, Amiens, has introduced a remarkable novelty in Odontioda 
ignea, which gained an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. on March 28th. 
Cochlioda Neetzliana and Odontoglossum Lindenii are the parents, and the 
combination has proved most felicitous, the hybrid having a much-branched 
inflorescence, with numerous small flowers of a dark scarlet-red tint. In 
habit and floral structure it most resembles the pollen parent, but the bright 
yellow colour is lost. It will be most interesting to see what any secondary 
hybrids from it are like. 
_ Another very brilliant Odontioda is figured on page 104, this being a 
secondary hybrid raised by M. Ch. Vuylsteke from Odontioda Vuylstekez 
and a highly spotted form of Odontoglossum crispum, and thus a form of 
Odontioda Sensation, whose characters were only briefly recorded when it 
appeared about a year ago. Whether this is from the same capsule we 
cannot say, but it is at all events very beautiful, and M. Vuylsteke may well 
remark that there is a great future before this hybrid genus. Healready has 
seedlings of the third generation, which shows remarkable progress. 
