THE ORCHID WORLD. 



Vol. 6. No. 8. 



June-July, 1916. 



NOTES 



OdONTOGLOSSUM MULUS. — An unusually 

 fine specimen of this natural hybrid between 

 gloriosum and luteopurpureum has been seen 

 this season at Cooksbridge, Sussex, where 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean make a speciality 

 of Odontoglossums. The leading bulb 

 carried two spikes, one with 1 1 branches and 

 85 flowers, the other with 12 branches and 

 106 flowers, making a grand total of igi. 



Blue Cattleyas. — On page 25 of the 

 present volume we noted some encouraging 

 steps towards the production of a blue 

 Cattleya, since when Messrs. Stuart Low and 

 Co. have flowered two distinct varieties of 

 Cattleya Seligerse (Enid x Whitei), in which 

 the whole flower has a decided bluish ting-e. 

 C. Enid is Warscewiczii x Mossias, and C. 

 Whitei is Schilleriana x Warnen, but from 

 which species the blue tinge is derived is by 

 no means certain. 



Dendrobium Dearei and D. Sander.e. 

 — These closely allied species are sometimes 

 found to be difficult subjects to handle suc- 

 cessfully, notwithstanding the fact that strong 

 and vigorous plants may have been secured 

 in the first instance. Messrs. J. and A. 

 McBean attempted their cultivation in the 

 high temperature usually recommended, but 

 as this did not yield the desired result the 

 plants were removed to a slightly lower tem- 

 perature, a warm corner in the Cattleya 

 house being selected, where they now grow 

 with remarkable freedom and flower quite 

 satisfactorily. D. Sanderas is a little darker 

 in the foliage. 



Gift to the Lindley Library. — The 

 Lindley Library of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society has been enriched by the presenta- 

 tion of many valuable books from the library 

 of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. Those 

 dealing specially with Orchids include: — • 

 Lindenia, 17 vols. ; L'Orchidophile, 10 vols. ; 

 Journal des Orchidees, 7 vols. ; R. Warner's 

 Select Orchidaceous Plants, 3 vols. ; and T. 

 Moore's Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants. 



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CyPRIPEDIUMS. — Concerning the lasting 

 properties of Cypripediums, as mentioned on 

 pages 152 and 155, it is of interest to note 

 that Messrs. Cypher and Sons exhibited at the 

 R.H.S., April nth, 1916, a strong plant of C. 

 aureum virginale, with about half-a-dozen 

 flowers, all of which were open m the last few 

 weeks of December, 1915. Despite the 

 winterly weather and the travelling to London 

 these flowers appeared to be quite fresh 

 and likely to last several more weeks in 

 perfection. 



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Oncidium SUPERBIENS. — For many years 

 this has been a rare species under cultivation, 

 and its pretty flowers of reddish-brown sepals 

 and yellowish petals barred with purple- 

 brown are seldom seen. But the rareness of 

 this species is now a thing of the past, Messrs. 

 J. and A. McBean having raised a batch of 

 plants by saving seed from a selected variet)^ 

 which flowered some six years ago. An 

 illustration will be found in the OrchiI) 

 World, Vol. V., p. 203, together with a 

 photograph of the handsome Oncidium 

 McBeanianuni (superbiens x macranthum). 



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