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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[June-July, 1916. 



ODONTIODA JOAN. 



(Oda. Charlesworthii X Odm. armainvillierense.) 



Mr. Charlesworth sends me a series of 

 blooms of this extraordmary variable cross, 

 containing the greatest variation I have yet 

 seen in any Odontiodas. Analysing its com- 

 ponents it could embrace the following distinct 

 crosses : — 



C. Noetzlicina x O. Harryanum = Oda. 

 Charlesworthii. 



C. Noetzliana x O. crispum = Oda. Madeline. 



C. Noetzliana x O. nobile = Oda. Vuyl- 

 stekeae. 



But it goes much further than this and has 

 any number of variants in between all these. 



The extreme range is from a big solid 

 crimson flower like Charlesworthii, with a 

 broad Madeline lip, through every shade of 

 red and lilac, marbled or self coloured, to a 

 still bigger Harrjanum-shaped form of a 

 lovely lilac-purple self colour, having a fine 

 oblong lip almost covered by the same shade. 



The absence of recurving of the segments 

 is very marked indeed, almost all trace of this 

 having been eradicated by the two white 

 species. 



The future of the Reds is far more com- 

 plex than anything in Odontoglossums. If all 

 of this series of Joan were crossed from one 

 plant and the resulting seedlings bloomed in 

 quantity it would be an eye-opener for any 

 student of hybridity, such as he could never 

 explain away by Mendelism or any other 

 " ism." 



The red of Cochlioda Noetzliana, as handed 

 down by Oda. Charlesworthii, is, of course, 

 the prominent feature in the whole series, and 

 if some of them were crossed with a fine Oda. 

 Bradshawiae the resulting " scarlet crispums " 

 that I once said were only a question of time 

 would be only a question of " scores of them," 

 and I daresay it is not very far ahead when 

 we count them by dozens in groups as we 

 used to count white crispums, then blotched 

 ones, then solid coloured ones, and lately 

 "reds." When will it be " yellows " P—^/^- B. 

 Crawshay, Roseficld, Sevenonks. 



The Brackenhurst Collection. — The 

 entire collection of Orchids formed by the 

 late Mr. J. Gurney Fowler will be submitted 

 by auction on Wednesday, June 21st, and 

 following days, at Brackenhurst, Pembury, 

 near Tunbridge Wells, Messrs. Protheroe and 

 Morris being the auctioneers. Man\' unique 

 and valuable plants are included, and the sale 

 will doubtless attract considerable attention. 



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Cattleya Princess. — Mr. Clement 

 Moore, of Hackensack, N.J., U.S.A., has 

 recently flowered in his superb collection a 

 beautiful Cattleya hybrid between Trianae 

 alba and Fueddemanniana alba, which he has 

 named Princess Patricia. Fortunately it 

 flowered at the time of the great show recently 

 held in New York, so he generously presented 

 the plant to be sold for the benefit of the Red 

 Cross Society. The gold medal which it 

 received and a suitable inscription regarding 

 the facts were handed to the purchaser. 



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Odontoglossum Godmanii. — Flowers of 

 this pretty hybrid between Edwardii and 

 Rolfeae come from the collection of Mr. George 

 Hodgson, The Grange, Hemsworth, Wake- 

 field. The petals are much broader than 

 usually seen in the majority of Edwardii 

 crosses, while the blotching is uncommonly 

 dark. 



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Destructive Mice. — Considerable 

 damage has been done this spring in the 

 Odontoglossum house of one of the leading 

 trade growers, this amounting to the loss of 

 several hundred flower spikes at a period 

 when the buds were just forming. It was 

 discovered that mice were the cause, these 

 destructive animals nipping off the whole 

 spike in some cases, while in others they com- 

 pletely spoilt the spike by pulling off most 

 of the buds. Despite all kinds of traps 

 nearly two months elapsed before the thieves 

 were all arrested. Odontoglossums and 

 Odontiodas proved equally attractive to these 

 wily plunderers. 



