THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. XVII.] AUGUST, 1909. fNo. 200. 
DIES ORCHIDIANI. 
ANOTHER sensational hybrid has appeared. Not many years ago, the idea 
of a hybrid between Miltonia vexillaria and Cochlioda Neetzliana would 
have provoked a smile of incredulity, in spite of the many successes that had 
been obtained, for we had begun to find out that a good many Orchids 
would not cross. They were too distinct, &c. Then came the remarkable 
Odontioda Vuylstekeze—sensational was the word at the time, and nothing 
short of a First-class Certificate and a Silver-gilt Medal would suffice to 
mark the occasion. Five years have given us at least nine or ten additions, 
while the original cross has been repeated several times, and Odontiodas 
now form quite an important garden genus, greatly admired and almost too 
common to excite remark. Such is progress in hybridisation. 
But I am forgetting the new plant. There was a tiny pot at the recent 
Holland House Show, containing a small seedling which was bearing its 
first flower. It was placed amidst a sea of other brilliant things, so 
numerous that a hurried visitor might have missed it, though it would have 
deserved the dignity of a bell glass of its own, but for the fact that they 
have now gone out of fashion. That was the new hybrid between Cochlioda 
Neetzliana and Miltonia vexillaria. It was a plant that might very well 
have produced a spike of anything up to a dozen flowers if it had been 
allowed a little more time, and it seems almost a pity that it attempted to 
bloom until it got a little bigger. Its portrait was secured and may be seen 
on another page (p. 233), and I need only add that the colour of the sepals 
and petals has been described as “‘ deep carmine rose, and that of the lip 
flesh-pink, with a pair of orange yellow keels at the base.” One cannot do 
justice to such a flower in black and white. The new Certificate of 
Appreciation was awarded to the plant, and we must now await with 
patience its full development. 
The Holland House Show was, as usual, a great success, with the single 
exception of the weather, which allowed the plants to get comfortably staged 
and the visitors there to admire them, after which the rain descended and 
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