JaNuARY, I910.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 5 
EVENTS OF 1909. 
THE past year has been a period of great activity in the Orchid world, and 
although it has not been marked by any great outstanding event, its annals 
show a record of substantial progress. The leading feature has again been 
in the department of the hybridist, and the remark that we do not now 
import novelties from abroad so much, we raise them at home, is becoming 
increasingly true every year. But another welcome development has been 
the increased interest taken in those remarkable productions of Nature 
usually termed Botanical Orchids, perhaps for want of a better word. They 
are now well represented at our horticultural meetings, and an‘attempt is made 
to appraise their merit by the award of Botanical Certificates, sometimes of 
the first and second-class. The movement is likely to spread. 
NOVELTIES. 
The imported novelties of the year have not been numerous. First and 
foremost we must mention the beautiful Dendrobium Sander imported by 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, which was figured at page 209, and received a First- 
class Certificate from the R.H.S. It is comparable with D. Dearei, though 
markedly different in having a number of purple markings at the base of 
the lip. Mormodes revolutum is a very curious Peruvian species which 
was shown by Messrs. Sander & Sons at Holland House, and Pleurothallis 
Birchenallii a striking Colombian species which was introduced by Mr. 
J. Birchenall. Several other interesting Botanical species have been 
described. Cycnoches densiflorum, from the’ collection of the Rev. J. C. B. 
Fletcher, is remarkable as a novelty of which both sexes appeared together, 
and which was described last year, though it flowered in the previous 
autumn. It was imported by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and was figured at 
page 104. Both sexes of C. maculatum appeared at Kew, and as the 
females were previously unknown it is legitimate to mention them here. 
HYBRIDS. . 
Of hybrids the name is legion, but we may mention Miltonioda Lindeni 
as a remarkable new generic combination between Miltonia and Cochlioda. 
Odontioda Bradshawiz, Cookson’s var., is a most remarkable variety from 
the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., which was figured at p. 113. 
Oddntioda chelseiensis, raised by Messrs. William Bull & Sons, was figured 
at p. 48. Brassocattleya Susanne, figured at p. 137, was raised by Mr. E. O. 
Orpet, and B.-c. sandhagensis, at p. 241, by Mr. Gustav H. Miiller. 
Several striking things flowered in the collection of Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Sir Trevor Lawrence, R. G. Thwaites, Esq., J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq., H. S. Goodson, Esq., De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., Messrs. Sander & Sons, and others, but we must reserve 
the details till later. A few others are mentioned in a succeeding paragraph. 
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