FEBRUARY, 1907.-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 41 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x ALICE. 
WE have much pleasure in iliustrating another handsome hybrid from 
Odontoglossum Edwardii, which has been raised by Messrs. William Bull 
and Sons, Chelsea, to whom we are indebted for the photograph. It was 
obtained by crossing the species named with the pollen of O. X crispo- 
Harryanum, the date being May 5, 1902. The seed was sown on July 14 
of the following year, and the first flower expanded on December 12, 1906, 
when the seedling was under three and a half years old. It has now 
passed into the collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., 5. Woodford, who 
exhibited it at the R.H.S. meeting on January. 8th, when it received an 
Award of Merit. It recalls in some respects the handsome O. xX 
Fig. 5. ODONTOGLOSSUM X ALICE#®. 
Thompsonianum, figured at page 241 of our thirteenth volume, but the 
violet-purple blotches do not monopolise quite so much of the segments as 
in that, while the ground colour is yellow when the flower first opens, 
gradually changing to white. The yellow is evidently due to the influence 
of O. Harryanum. It is a very bright and attractive flower, and is evidently 
not yet fully developed, as the first inflorescence bore only three flowers. 
Messrs. Bull have made an excellent start in raising Odontoglossums, 
for they send another photo showing a house with row after row of 
seedlings in various stages, there being about twelve hundred altogether, 
Odontoglossums and Odontiodas. The one figured is the first to flower, 
