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grown and as floriferous, besides taking up less space. They introduce variety 
into the collection, and those who saw the splendid collection exhibited by 
Sir Trevor Lawrence at the Temple Show will be able to realise how 
deserving of cultvation the best of them are. They should be grown 
on into good-sized clumps, in order to get the best results, and it is only 
when thus grown one can form an idea what they are really capable of. 
A FRAUD IN THE ORCHID TRADE. 
Awonst all the Orchids imported to England, probably the most popular, 
as well as. the most extensively cultivated, is Odontoglossum  crispum ig 
Every year many thousands of this plant are imported from Colombia fo 
the English market. It is no secret that the most famous type is that 
Pacho, and this is becoming more and more scarce, and consequently mor : 
expensive to collect in its native habitat. When it is mentioned that the 
Pacho type is the most prized, it should be stated that inferior types ate 
procurable in great abundance other than in the Pacho region. Thus the 
inferior types abound at a distance of two or three days’ journey from the 7 
Pacho centre. . In England there are some expert O. crispum growers, -_ 
can, as a rule, distinguish the Pacho forms from the worthless forms} be 
even experts are sometimes at a loss to distinguish the legitimate Fach — 
forms when they are exposed in the market for sale as imported—.¢., } 
with bulbs devoid of leaves. When experts are puzzled, the o1 
purchaser at sale-rooms is, of course, easily duped. Forms or types of 
plants are thus frequently bought that are not worth growing. Not oa 
consigned to the tubbish-heap. oe 
This year a new departure in the O. crispum trade has sprung pe 
scores of thousands are being exported from Colombia. The vast majonty 
of the plants thus obtained come from regions whence only thes ze 
known types of O. crispum come ; amongst them a large intermixtn 
of O. Lindleyanum, &c. But this is not all. These despised type" 
O. crispum, &c., are conveyed several days’ journey on mules’ backs . 
Pacho, in order to pack them there, and to label each case with the _ 
of ff Pacho.”"—Criterion, in Gard. Chyon., May 30th, p. 674. 
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