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ordinarily implied by the name of the town more or less in its centre, 
“It is easier to commence by clearing away the negatives first, and 50 
Pacho may at once be written off as a crispum-producing area to-day ; but 
it has two extended ends ; to its S.W., La Vega, which sends its supplies to 
Facatativa, and to its N.E., San Cayetano. From both these districts | 
come fine forms of crispum, agreeing in all respects with the grand, heavy — 
flowers known in the ’seventies and early eighties as ‘O’Reilly’s’ and — 
St. Albans varieties, which produced such fine round flowers as ‘The 
Duchess,’ for which Sir Trevor Lawrence paid, on November 16th, 1882, _ 
forty guineas for ‘half the plant’; apiatum, whose history is already well- : 
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known; Ballantinei, Hrubyanum (by the way, where is this fine thing now?), — 
Sanderianum, Thompsonianum, Veitchianum, and Baroness Schréder. The — 
crispums emanating from this district that have too large a proportion of luteo- 
purpureum influence in them to permit them to be called true crispums are 
Alpha, Cooksonianum, Evelina, nobilius, pardalinum, Princess Christian, 
Schréderianum, Stevensii, The Earl, and Wolstenholmiz. | 
‘“‘La Vega has carried on the high character of Pacho, and produced ‘ 
such fine forms as Cooksoniz, Franz Masereel, Pittianum, and Seraphim. : 
“San Cayetano has done its share also, in furnishing Abner Hassall, de — 
Barri, Persimmon and Donovan. 
‘‘ When we get to Chiquinquira the type of crispum pure and simple — 
becomes quite changed; the numerous spotted varieties are not of such 
grand form and size as those above-mentioned, but occasionally among : 
them comes a really fine massive bloom. This is very difficult to account ~ 
for on natural lines, but there are many ways that suggest themselves to an 
expert in these matters. In this district the innumerable forms of Adrian® 
appear, and, of course, the continual intercrossing by the agency of insects 4 
has produced such an interminable chain of links that it has become : 
difficult to say what is crispum and what is Adrianz, for each has many 
points in common with the other. Scores of ‘ vellow crispums’ appear in | 
these importations, but the yellow disappears in a few days, leaving a dirty 
white, sometimes called ‘creamy,’ sometimes not even the dirty white. 
There can be no doubt that a crispum having yellow in it, even though — 
fugitive, cannot be a crispum pure and simple. It is impossible for 4 — 
€rispum to possess the attributes of the various species growing with it and : 
be a true crispum at the same time. This statement has a direct bearing 
“pon many varieties called crispum, but which are no doubt crosses — 
between a crispum and an Adriana. Pe: 
“It is hardly worth while discussing the crispums from Velez; it wills 
suffice to say that they are small and worthless. No one whothas any 
tegard for his reputation or the satisfaction of his clients ever sends them 
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