THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. XVII.| JUNE, tIg09. [No. 198. 
DIES ORCHIDIANI. 
I INTENDED to commence my remarks this month with something about the 
Temple Show, and was impressed with the difficulty of saying anything 
new, when a newspaper cutting obligingly came to hand, which supplied 
the necessary inspiration. 
The exhibition of Orchids, it remarks, was more marvellous than ever. 
To bring it together the tropical forests of the globe had been ransacked, 
and the resources of scientific horticulture taxed to the uttermost. An 
expert told our representative that £50,000 would not purchase the collec- 
tion. One group alone would have brought in at least £20,000 if put up to 
auction. 
One of the novelties which attracted attention was a little brownish red 
flower (officially described as violet-purple in colour), with the ponderous 
name of Odontoglossum crispum Minoru. There is one bloom of the kind 
in the world: it measures one a half inches from tip to tip of the petals and 
is priced at 250 guineas. After ceaseless care on the part of its rearer, the 
** Minoru” blossomed four days ago, and was immediately named after the 
King’s horse in this year’s Derby. Its distinctive feature is the deep marking 
of petals and sepals. 
Near this modest blossom was shown yesterday a much more showy 
Orchid—the Cattleya Mossiz Edward VII.,an entirely new importation 
from Peru, which displays a rich golden throat in the midst of petals of a 
brilliant pink. 
Orchid growers were paying high prices for new hybrids during the day. 
One insignificant-looking flower of medium size, named the Lezliocattleya 
Eurylochus, and remarkable for its warm brick-red tint and crimson lip, 
had the luck to be sold three times over in almost as many minutes. The 
first purchaser was a Belgian gentleman, who spends some £15,000 a year 
upon his hobby. He was so struck by the Eurylochus that, without a 
moment’s delay, he told the Continental representative of the grower to 
book it in his name. Immediately afterwards Colonel Holford, a well- 
known Orchid expert, purchased the same plant from the grower himself, 
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