76 THE ORCHID REVIEW: [MakCH, 1913. 
ORCHID BREEDING. 
THE MAKING OF A ‘‘ SCARLET CRISPUM.”’ 
EVER since the advent of the remarkable Odontioda Vuylstekez, in 1904, 
the making of a ‘‘ Scarlet crispum ” has been the ambition of the hybridist, 
and the first milestone on the road was passed when, less than three years 
later, Odontioda Bradshawiz flowered with Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 
and received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. It had been obtained 
by crossing Cochlioda Neetzliana with the pollen of Odontoglossum 
crispum—we believe a blotched form of it, though the blotching did not 
come out in the hybrid—and bore a spike of thirteen flowers, of a brilliant 
Fig. 20. -ODONTIODA BRADSHAWLA COOKSON’S VAR. 
shade of cinnabar-scarlet. They were, however, rather deficient in size 
and shape. A better-shaped form was raised in the collection of the late 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., by crossing a good typical white O. crispum 
with the pollen of Cochlioda Noetzliana. this being one of the few cases in 
which this Cochlioda has been successfully used as the pollen parent. It 
was called Cookson’s variety. The photograph (see fig 20), Mr. Cookson 
informed us, shows the exact size of the flowers when taken, being carefully 
checked with callipers. This form is the nearest approach to O. crispum 
in size and shape that we have seen, but it is by no means scarlet, as the 
