THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[October, 1916. 



ledge of rock seemed to afford it a little 

 shade. As an example of the cultural method 

 advised in the early days, Lindley remarked 

 that it may be potted in turfy heath-mould, 

 mixed with a few pieces of small potsherds, 

 which will cause superfluous water to pass off 

 freely. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM TARENT. 



(mirum X Kiiburneanum.) 



IF this had appeared before garden-raised 

 hybrids were known it would have been 

 called a blotched crispum, as almost 

 everything came under this term that was not 

 white grounded. 



There are points m it which show it has 

 other parents than those needed to make a 

 blotched crispum. The sepals and petals are 

 rose-grounded, covered for two-thirds their 

 area by rich purplish-brown, the tips of all 

 carrying the characteristic apical v-shaped 

 space where the overlay colour fails, a 

 constant character in Harryanum hybrids. 

 The lip IS oblong, white, with a large blotch 

 and basilar marks ; the crest yellow, with two 

 long central keels ; the column small and 

 heavily coloured (the anther cap also) on the 

 back and down the wings. Harryanum has 

 been much suppressed by the power of the 

 various other species in its ancestry. 



Kiiburneanum was described m THE 

 Orchid World, July, 191 2, p. 222. The 

 mirum is one of a few I raised which has 

 crispum Luciani as the parent. 



This new cross is the first Odontoglossum 

 hybrid that has been raised and bloomed by 

 Mr. C. J. Phillips, The Glebe, Sevenoaks. 

 A tiny plant, carrying but one flower, only 

 gives a promise of the future. The owner 

 and his energetic grower, Mr. Bucknall, are 

 to be congratulated upon their entry into the 

 number of successful hybridists. In igi/ the 

 Odontoglossum and Odontioda hybrids will 

 place The Glebe in a front rank position. 



This cross was made on June 2nd, 191 2, 

 the seed sown July 7th, 191 3, and the first 

 flower produced September 4th, 19 16. How 

 different to the results we obtained with 

 the early Odontoglossum hybrids. — de B. 

 Crawshay, Ruseficld, Sevenuaks . 



ODONTIODA VIVIENNE. 



THIS hybrid between Oda. Cooksoniae 

 and Odm. crispum was originally 

 exhibited by Mrs. Cookson at the 

 meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 January 27th, 1914. The similarity of the 

 name of the former parent to Oda. Good- 

 soniae is likely to create some confusion in the 

 records, hence it is advisable to distinguish 

 clearly the one from the other, for when the 

 writing on the labels becomes indistinct there 

 IS but little difference between Cooksoniae 

 and Goodsoniae. 



Oda. Goodsoniae (parentage unknown) was 

 raised by M. Vuylsteke and exhibited by Mr. 

 H. S. Goodson at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, March 9th, 1909. Oda. Cooksoniae 

 (C. Noetzliana x Odm. ardentissimum) was 

 raised by Mr. N. C. Cookson and exhibited 

 at the Temple Show, May 25th, 1909. Thus 

 there is only a difference of a few weeks in 

 the dates of their original flowering. 



Since the first flowering and recording of 

 Oda. Vivienne (Oda. Cooksoniae x Odm. 

 crispum) several hybrids, presumably of 

 similar parentage, have been flowered by 

 other amateurs, but the name of the 

 Odontioda parent has been given as Good- 

 soniae, hence they have appeared as new 

 hybrids and have been recorded under new 

 names. 



In July, 1915, Odontioda H. Worsley was 

 flowered by Mr. H. Worsley, and duly 

 recorded as of the parentage Oda. Goodsoniae 

 X Odm. crispum. At the Holland House 

 show, 1916, Messrs. Mansell and Hatcher 

 exhibited Odontioda Dainty, with precisely 

 similar parentage. Presuming that both these 

 are correctly recorded, the latter must be 

 considered a variety of the former, on account 

 of its later origin. 



But the real question to decide is whether 

 Goodsoniae has been erroneously given for 

 Cooksoniae ; if so, Oda. H. Worsley and Oda. 

 Dainty can only be regarded as varieties of 

 Oda. Vivienne, the earliest published name 

 for the hybrid between Oda. Cooksoniae and 

 Odm. crispum. 



