218 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JULY, 1907. 
selling one part as Lot 199 in his first sale, held April 7, 1891, for 100 
guineas. I believe the buyer was a Belgian trader, who sold it to M. 
Warocqué. Mr. Pollett sold the other portion privately to Baron Schréder, 
who still has it ; therefore of the true identity of this plant there can be 
no doubt, if anyone who owns it under its various synonyms likes to 
compare blooms in due time. 
The plant seems to have kept a very private existence after this till 
February 14, 1896, when another plant appeared at “P. & M.’s,” being 
bought by Mr. H. T. Pitt for about 75 guineas. This was figured in the: 
Gardening World, February 22, 1896, as O. X Wilckeanum Pittianum. I 
believe Mr. Pitt has still a part of this division of it. He included two 
plants of it as O. X Wilckeanum Pittianum in his duplicate sale of March 
22, 1906. 
Its next change was into an O. X Adriane, during the early years of 
the great popularity of this hybrid. I received blooms from a correspondent 
in 1901, but as this plant afterwards passed privately into another collec- 
tion, and was correctly named, there is no need to record the temporary 
alias. 
Subsequently a plant was shown by Mr. N. C. Cookson at Holland. 
House on June 25, 1903, as O. crispum Sibyl, its photograph by Mr. Hed 
Chapman being reproduced (G.C. 1903, ii. p. 37, fig. 16), when it was stated 
(in error) that it was raised at Oakwood, this being subsequently corrected 
by Mr. Cookson (l.c. p. 121). Mr. Cookson afterwards restored the plant 
to O. X Wilckeanum, bit retained the varietal name “ Sibyl.” Plants 
from this source are in other collections, as O. * Wilckeanum Sibyl, two 
plants being so named in his “duplicate sale” of May 31, 1904; at 
P. & M.’s. One also appeared in Earl Tankerville’s duplicate sale of 3 
March 12, 1907. 
This variety even to-day holds its own among its congeners, as its pure 
white ground, so beautifully marked by deep crimson-chocolate, enhances 
the beauty of the markings, which are rather out of the common, owing to 
the fact that the petals are “‘ eyebrowed,”’ in the manner of O. crispum Franz. 
Masereel and Mossiz ; and when upon a large plant is much finer than the 
accompanying reproduction, which was taken from a small plant in my 
own collection, but it shows the peculiarity of the markings equally well. 
In recording all named varieties of Odontoglossums, as I have now con- 
sistently done for twenty-six years, I have observed the constant desire for 
novelty, which has led some of us to imagine we have a new variety when 
we really have but an old one. This, of course, only applies to an admired 
form, the others soon passing into oblivion. 
Named varieties are now so numerous, and are constantly increasing,. 
that it behoves us all to try and reduce the tendency in some measure, and. 
