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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[March, 1915. 



yellow coloured hybrids that it has been our 

 pleasure to receive comes from Mr. O. O. 

 Wrigley's collection at Bury. It is Laelio- 

 Cattleya Goldie Locks, a cross between L. 

 Cowanii and C. Harnsoniana, which carries a 

 stout and erect spike of 14 flowers, each 

 slightly more than 3 inches across, and of a 

 glistening golden-yellow colour, not a spot of 

 any other colour being \isible. A yellow- 

 coloured Odontoglossum is also sent by Mr. 

 E. Rogers, from the same collection. The 

 yellow pigment is no doubt derived from 

 Hunnewellianum, a small growing species 

 inhabiting certain districts where O. crispum 

 is also found. The two species have yielded 

 a natural hybrid known as Adrianas, and this, 

 when iigam worked through crispum, probably 

 more than once, has yielded the above result. 



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Orchids at Rochester, New York, 

 U.S.A. — The collection of Orchids owned by 

 Mrs. William S. Kimball has long been 

 celebrated for its specimen plants and the 

 wide range of varieties which it contains. 

 Among the Cattleyas are some excellent 

 specimens of C. Bowringiana which on last 

 flowering carried from 15 to 20 spikes, some 

 of the blooms being of a pure light rose 

 colour, while others were of a light mauve 

 tint. C. Trianae embraces many blue-lipped 

 varieties, some of them being unique, while 

 C. Gaskelliana alba is represented by about 

 twenty-five strong plants. Brasso-Cattleyas 

 and Laslio-Cattleyas are also cultivated with 

 considerable success. It is among the 

 Cypripediums, both species and hybrids, that 

 the largest number of varieties can be seen. 

 There is a very fine variety of Maudise, known 

 as ne plus ultra, also the well-known Beryl 

 " West Point var.," Curtmannii, Priam (insigne 

 X Niobe), fulshawense, J. Howes (villosum x 

 nitens), a large flower, Euryades splendens, 

 the brightly coloured aureum surprise. Harle- 

 quin, with a curious colour arrangement, Mrs. 

 Gary Batten, Minos Youngii, of excellent 

 shape, Prospero majus, Thalia " Mrs. F. 

 Wellesley," Thompsonii, an attracti\ e flower, 

 and triuni])hans, a well-built flower of rich 



coloration. Cypripedium insigne comprises a 

 fine batch of plants, the varieties, of which 

 there are more than thirty, including King 

 Edward VII., the majestic Harefield Hall, and 

 one larger than this bearing the name J. Julius 

 Roehrs, while among the albino forms are 

 Laura Kimball, of a clear buff-yellow, and the 

 elegant Sanderae. The very distinct C. 

 Rothschildianum is well grown, and the same 

 may be said of C. Stonei, now very rarely 

 seen. There is also an interesting variety of 

 Curtisii, besides unique forms of other species, 

 some of which have been divided into a 

 number of healthy and well-rooted pieces. 

 Several of the plants are in 1 2-inch pots, which 

 will give some idea of the vigorous manner in 

 which Gypripediums are cultivated by Mr. 

 Golin B. Ogston in the Kimball conservatories. 



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MiLTONIA WaRSCEWICZII. — From the 

 collection of Mr. O. O. Wrigley, Bridge Hall, 

 Bury, comes an excellent spike and variety of 

 this species, which Mr. E. Rogers cultivates 

 with considerable success. According to 

 Reichenbach, it was the botanist Pceppig who 

 first detected it in 1830 on the Peruvian 

 Andes, near Guchiro. It was next found by 

 the Polish traveller and collector, Warscewicz, 

 who brought to Europe dried specimens from 

 which the plant was first described, and the 

 species was accordingly dedicated to him. It 

 was introduced to European gardens by 

 Linden in 1868, through Wallis, probably 

 from Golombia, in which country it had been 

 detected by Purdie many years previously. 

 .Subsequently it was found by Messrs. Veitch's 

 collector, Burke, growing on small trees and 

 shrubs close to the ground and on moss- 

 covered stones at an elevation of 2,000-3,000 

 feet, near the Rio Verde, in the province of 

 Antioquia. A plant exhibited at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in October, 1869, was 

 probably the first that flowered in England. 

 This species has also been recorded under the 

 names Miltonia fuscatum and M. Weltonii. 

 On account of the panicled inflorescence, a 

 rare instance in the genus Miltonia, hybridists 

 have made much use of it in the production 

 of attractive hybrids. 



