﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. [January, 1904. 



The variety Bogaerdeanum (fig. 1) was introduced by Mr. A. Bogaerde, 

 of Birmingham, in 1895, and received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. 

 in May, 1897, when exhibited by De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, 

 Sevenoaks. 



O. X Denison.e appeared in the collection of Lord Londesborough, in 

 1872, and was awarded a First-class Certificate by the R.H.S. It appeared 

 in an importation of O. crispum made three years before by Messrs. 

 Backhouse, of York, and was at first thought to be a white variety of O. 

 luteopurpureum, but afterwards Mr. Denning pointed out that it combined 

 the characters of O. luteopurpureum and O. crispum, between which he 

 regarded it as a hybrid. In 1880 a much darker form, with yellow ground, 

 appeared in the collection of M. Massange de Louvrex, of BaiIlonvillt_',. 



Fig. 2. O. x Denison^e Chestertoni. 

 Belgium, and was named O. X Wilckeanum, after M. Massange's gardener, 

 its hybrid origin and parentage being pointed out by Reichenbach. The 

 parentage has since been confirmed, the plant having been raised artificially 

 in the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, of Armainvilliers, by 

 M. Leroy. It is very variable, and includes forms with both white and 

 yellow grounds, with a wide range of variation in the amount of the spotting. 



The variety Chestertoni (fig. 2) is a remarkable form, which was not 

 at first recognised as a form of this hybrid. It appeared in an importa- 

 tion of O. crispum, sent to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons by the late Mr. 

 Chesterton, and received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. in 

 March, 1876, as O. Chestertoni. It afterwards passed into the collection of 



