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These two regions are separated by the immense Savannah plains, where 
one has the impression of being in England. Here agricultural pursuits are 
being carried on ; oats, barley, maize, and potatoes being cultivated in great 
quantities, and the two latter crops sometimes suffer from frost. In the 
meadows browse cattle and sheep of the choicest breeds, and at the 
central top one sees Bogota, and can find here all the desirable comforts 
of civilisation. 
Three railways have their termini at Bogota; one to the Cordillera on 
the north, taking you to Zipaquira and good crispums, and one to the 
Cordillera on the South, taking you to Fusagasuga and bad crispums, while 
the third line goes to Facatativa, thence three days on mules to Honda, 
where one finds the Magdalena river steamers to Barranquillo, in the 
Caribbean Sea—and home. 
M. Forget takes exception to the introduction of a number of names of 
insignificant villages as localizing the beginning, the end, or the middle of a 
particular characteristic in the type, as this can only result in confusing the 
mind of the reader. Good varieties of crispum extend all along the northern 
regions, but a collector may obtain a lot of plants better than another, which 
readily admits of an explanation. Two good varieties get mated together, 
and their seedlings spread to progenerate. Anyone who has flowered a lot 
of plants out of the same importation will have all the types present which 
M. Claes so carefully classifies and localizes—stems slender and stout, 
flowers arranged closely and regularly, or vice versd, flowers of good and bad 
shape, thin or of good substance, which proves that it would be absurd - 
select each of these as typifying the product of a certain hillside. Who is 
there who has not—if he has been growing crispums long enough—purchased 
the “true Pacho type”? Didanyone ever flower ten per cent. of good age 
out of them—I mean good in arrangement, shape, and texture ? And 1 
anyone did flower the ten per cent. of good ones, would it be logic to ae 
these up and say the “‘ true Pacho type?” It would not. The sei a z 
be the ninety per cent. indifferent ones, the ten being the abnorma we . 
the abnormals that everyone is hunting after, and they exist, ren ing 3 
M. Forget, in much the same proportion all along this region. Where 
Hunnewellianum is found growing abundantly there is more omg ms 
getting blotched or spotted forms. He estimates that not ce t one 
per cent. of the Odontoglossums growing in the: Velez and Bo iv ws a 
are true crispums, the cther half being the inferior species a : owe 
between them and O. crispum, but the natives are oe a ne ne 
plants they are collecting, and when once they ele rebuke ar ae a 
off the inferior kinds, they bring the cr cs seaseap gaa 4 a d intercrossed 
of Sucre Viego the Odontoglossums seem rather more mixe Ae meget et 
and M. Forget says that certainly from that district come 
