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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[September, 1916. 



PhAL/ENOPSIS John SedEN. — This inter- 

 esting hybrid between amabiHs and Luedde- 

 manniana was raised by Seden for Messrs. 

 Veitch and Sons, and flowered in 1888, when 

 it was exhibited by Baron Schroder at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, March 27th, and 

 awarded a First-class Certificate. The sepals 

 and petals ivory-white, densely and uniformly 

 dotted all over with light purple ; the claw of 

 the lip similarly dotted, the lobes suffused 

 with reddish-purple. 



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Cattleya Adula. — Ten years have now 

 elapsed since the first appearance of C. 

 Adula, and during this period many remark- 

 ably fine varieties have been seen. Its 

 parentage is bicolor x Hardyana (Warscewiczii 

 X aurea), and it thus differs from its near 

 relation C. Iris by having the vigorous nature 

 of Warscewiczii infused in its constitution. 

 C. Iris has always been a hybrid of delicate 

 health ; in fact, very few plants are now in 

 existence, and probably none whatever of the 

 original raising. C. Adula may be described 



as a glorified Iris, the rose-purple of 

 Warscewiczii producing the most beautiful 

 tints, varying in accordance with the degree 

 of its representation in the parentage. In 

 some varieties the effect of bicolor and aurea 

 produces a yellowish-bronze colour, only the 

 purplish veins denoting the slight presence of 

 Warscewiczii. In others this latter species is 

 to be seen in stronger force, when the whole 

 of the sepals and petals assume a rich glowing 

 tint of rosy-purple, through which the 

 principal yellowish-bronze colour is still 

 discernible. To Messrs. Hassall and Co. is 

 due the credit of raising one of the finest 

 strains of Adula it has been our pleasure to 

 see, and the marvellous diversity of colora- 

 tion shown in the examples recently flowered 

 foretells how valuable they will become on 

 reaching maturity ; at present they are but 

 four years old. In the making of C. Adula 

 Messrs. Hassall and Co. used parents of a 

 remarkably fine nature, hence the excellent 

 results now achieved are but the forerunners 

 of still finer hybrids when future generations 

 are produced with Adula itself as one of the 

 parents. 



