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THF. ORCHID WORLD. 



[April, 1915. 



there is every evidence that the Orchids 

 receive the full share to which their flowers, 

 be they gorgeous, quaint or microscopic, 

 entitle them. 



With such an extensive collection to 

 describe it is by no means easy to select a 

 section that stands out prominently, but as 

 these notes are written during the Dendro- 

 bium season a 

 few remarks 

 concern ing 

 the most inter- 

 esting m a )• 

 here be given. 

 A u s t r a 1 i an 

 species are 

 well repre- 

 sented by the 

 elegant D. 

 Tofftii, seen 

 for the first 

 time in this 

 country last 

 November, 

 when the 

 Royal Horti- 

 cultural .So- 

 ciety granted 

 a Botanical 

 C e r t i fi c ate. 

 Also the 

 showy D . 

 speciosum niti- 

 dum, which 

 obtained a 

 similar award, and a Cultural Commendation 

 for Mr. Collier, who grew the specimen so 

 successfully that it produced no less than 46 

 many-flowered spikes. D. taurinum Colmanii, 

 a remarkable species whose flower resembles 

 a bull's head, is well worthy of special 

 mention. D. phalaenopsis is well represented, 

 the Gatton Park variety having a white 

 flower with the lip tinged and veined with 

 slaty-blue. D. phalaenopsis Schroderianum, 

 and others of the same section, as well as the 

 pretty D. arcuatum, and the remarkable 

 Gatton Park variety of D. Brymerianum may 

 also be seen in excellent health. Nearly all 

 the noted forms of the popular D. nobile are 



Odonlioda BraJshawia " Lady Colman.' 

 (R.H.S. Journal.) 



included, the best being Dorman's variety, 

 Harefield Hall, Sanderae, alba, splendens, 

 Colmaniana, with a pink coloured throat, and 

 Ashworthii, the latter distinguished by bright 

 rose-purple blotches on a pure white ground. 

 D. bigibbum "Lady Colman," A.M., R.H.S., 

 is a pretty albino form, having white flowers 

 with a slight blush tint. 



It is, how- 

 ever, w 1 1 ii 

 hybrid Dend- 

 robes that the 

 finest decora- 

 tive results are 

 obtained, for 

 in no other 

 garden have 

 so many varie- 

 t i e s been 

 raised and cul- 

 tivated. One 

 of the most 

 attractive is 

 the Gatton 

 Park variety 

 of W i g a n - 

 1 a n u m , ob- 

 t a 1 n e d b\' 

 crossing Hilde- 

 brandii and 

 nobile, the 

 e ff e c t 1 V e 

 manner in 

 which the 

 yellowish 

 sepals and petals are twisted being charac- 

 teristic of the former parent. Many hybrids 

 have been raised by the use of signatum 

 aureum, a rare, yellow flowering species, D. 

 Wigania? (signatum x nobile) being a good 

 example, although the expectation of produc- 

 ing an enlarged form of D. Wigania? 

 xanthochilum has yet to be realised ; also 

 D. Brodiei (Dominyanum x Wiganiae), a 

 floriferous plant, as well as D. Duchess of 

 Albany (Wiganianum x Wiganiae), named in 

 commemoration of a visit paid by the 

 Duchess to Gatton Park in iQii, and the 

 elegant D. chessingtonense (aureum x 

 Wiganiae), of which the Gatton Park variety 



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