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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[Nov. -Dec, igi6. 



Phal^nopsis Sanderiana.— 

 This beautiful species was intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Sander and Sons, 

 from the Phihppine Islands in 1882, 

 through their collector Roebling ; 

 soon afterwards it was gathered by 

 Messrs. Veitch's collector Burke. 

 When first it flowered in this 

 country, experts regarded it as a 

 natural hybrid between Aphrodite 

 and SchiUeriana, and later as a 

 variety of Aphrodite. It is now 

 considered a distinct species, native 

 of the island of Mindanao. The 

 leaves are 7 — 10 inches long and 

 3 — 4 inches broad, usually dark 

 green, but occasionally more or less 

 spotted and marked with grey. The 

 inflorescence is often branched and 

 carries many flowers about 3 inches 

 in diameter, and tinged with rose. 

 In the variety alba the only colour is to be 

 seen in a few light purple spots at the base of 

 the side lobes of the lip and some yellow spots 

 on the crest. 



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L^lio-Cattleya Mad. Brasseur-Hye. 

 — This hybrid appears to have been first 

 exhibited by the late M. Jules Hye at 

 the Meeting Horticole de Gand, Belgium, 

 September 7th, 1913, and recorded in La 

 Tribune Horticole, September 20th, of the 

 same year. The parents are L.-C. Aphrodite 

 and C. Warscewiczii. From Mr. H. Worsley, 

 Sherfin, Baxenden, we have received a 

 painting of a beautiful variety bearing the 

 name Harry Worsley, and produced by 

 crossing L.-C. Aphrodite alba with C. 

 Warscewiczii F. M. Beyrodt. The white 

 sepals and petals of both parents are 

 inherited. 



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Cattleyas in Season. — From Mr. Alwyn 

 Harrison, who has recently removed to 

 Sharnbrook, Beds, we have received an 

 elegant variety of Cattleya Lord Rothschild 

 (Gaskelliana x aurea) and an unusually dark 

 form of Cattleya Mrs. Pitt (Harrisoniana x 

 aurea), clistinguished as Harrison's variety. 







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Phalanopsis Sanderiana alba. 



Choice Cattleyas. — Several elegant 

 novelties have flowered in the collection of 

 Mr. H. Worsley, Sherfin, Baxenden, among 

 them being C. Ataligas (Atalanta x Warsce- 

 wiczii), with the sepals and petals of thick 

 substance and the flatly displayed labellum of 

 rich plum-purple. Two beautiful and distinct 

 varieties of C. Venus, known respectively as 

 Mastiff and Mrs. Harry Worsley, prove what 

 fine results are now obtained by careful 

 hybridising. The former is of a peculiar 

 bronze colour, suffused with dull red ; the 

 latter has bright golden-yellow sepals and 

 petals and a large crimson-purple lip, prettily 

 crimped at the margin. Among the Laelio- 

 Cattleyas is L.-C. Stonehouse (C. Trianae x 

 L.-C. Canhamiana), in which the Back- 

 houseana variety of the former parent has 

 produced an effective mottling of purple on 

 the apical area of each petal ; the roundish 

 labellum is dark purple with a golden 

 blotch in front of the column. Also L.-C. 

 Mrs. Harry Worsley, the result of crossing 

 callistoglossa and Dominiana, and in which 

 the large flower has rose-purple sepals 

 and petals and a very large labellum of 

 ruby-red and crimson-purple. It is one 

 of the best of the large section of La?lio- 

 Cattleyas. 



