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ODONTIODA NIGELLA. 



O. nobile O. crispuin 



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C. Noetzliana O. Harryanum O. Harryanum O. armainvillierense 

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Oda. Charlesworthii Odm. Thwaitesii 



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Oda. Nigella. 



In raising this I used one of the best 

 varieties of Mr. Thwaites' raising, which 

 contained a very large amount of blue. Blue 

 on ruby-red gives in the first plant to bloom 

 intensely deep Harryanum-brown on yellow 

 base in the sepals and petals, and these, when 

 seen in bright sunlight, have a ruby sheen, 

 the only remnant of the fine colour of the 5 

 parent. The form has reverted to that of 

 Harryanum, being narrow ; but the lip has 

 also reverted to that form, being large and 

 wide and of deep lilac at the apex, the lower 

 half heavily spotted with deep brown-purple ; 

 in shape pandurate, which is one of the most 

 constant features of hybrids containing nobile 

 in their ancestry. — dc B.Crawshay, Rosefield, 

 Sevenoaks. 



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L.f:LIO-CATTLEYA GEOFFREY. — From Mr. 

 C. J. Lucas, Warnham Court, Horsham, we 

 have received a beautiful variety of L.-C. 

 Geoffrey, first raised by him in 1905, the 

 parents being C. Warscewiczii and L. longipes 

 var. Lucasiana. The particular point of 

 attraction in this medium-sized flower is the 

 bright yellow labellum with its plum-purple 

 front lobe. The sepals and petals are 

 rosy-mauve. 



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Cattleya Warneri. — A fine specimen of 

 this elegant species was exhibited at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, June 13th, 1883, by Mr. 

 C. L. .Southgate, of Streatham. The plant 

 was in an 8-inch pot, and bore three spikes, 

 one having six, another five, and the third four 

 flowers upon it, all fully expanded. 



Odontioda Sir Douglas Haig. — This 

 elegant novelty has been produced through 

 Odm. percultum and Oda. Cooksonias, the 

 former parent containing O. Harryanum, to 

 which IS due the symmetrically arranged 

 blotching, and the conspicuous crest on the 

 large labellum, this segment having the broad 

 apex of O. Pescatorei, derived from both 

 parents. It received an Award of Merit when 

 exhibited at the Manchester Orchid Society, 

 July 20th, 19 1 6, by Mr. Tom Worsley, of 

 Carter Place, Haslingden, from whom we have 

 received through his cultivator, Mr. T. Wood, 

 a specimen flower and a photograph showing 

 the plant carrying a spike of nine handsome 

 flowers, which remained fresh for the long 

 period of two months, doubtless owing to the 

 robust constitution enjoyed by the plant. 



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OdONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE. — Paxtons 

 Magazine of Botany, Vol. VIII., p. 49, 

 published in 1841, thus describes this well- 

 known Orchid: — "It IS altogether a species 

 on which too much praise can hardly be 

 lavished. Being strictly epiphytal, and thriving 

 best on a log of wood, suspended from some 

 part of the Orchidaceous house, its appear- 

 ance is most characteristic when in blossom, 

 the copious and enormous flowers causing the 

 scape to assume a half-drooping form. But 

 the gorgeous tints and beautiful structure of 

 its inflorescence are beyond comparison the 

 most striking features. From 5 to 6 inches is 

 the usual breadth of the flowers from the tip 

 of each petal ; the sepals are mottled and 

 barred like the back of a tiger ; the brown of 

 the petals is of that rich, smooth, shining 

 character as to appear an artificial prepara- 



