igrj THR ORCHID WORLD. [June, 1915. 



Odontoglossum crispum Olive. 



Exhibited at the Chelsea Show by J, Gurney Fowler, Esq, 



Historic Paintings. — The series of 

 Orchid paintings, some half-dozen in number, 

 which for more than 60 years have been in 

 the possession of Messrs. James Veitch and 

 Sons, have just been presented by Sir Harry 

 J. Veitch to the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 who have despatched them to Wisley, where 

 there is better accommodation. They were 

 painted in oils by a French artist then 

 employed by Dr. Lindley, and with one 

 exception they represent Orchids collected 

 by various travellers sent out by Messrs. 

 Veitch when at Exeter and subsequently at 

 Chelsea. The one depicting Vanda coerulea 

 was done from a dried spike sent home by 

 Thomas Lobb, and with the aid of one 

 living flower, all that was then available. 

 Selenipedium caudatum is effectively exe- 

 cuted, and others include an brides and, 

 we believe, Laslia purpurata. Perhaps the 



most interesting is that of Dendrobium 

 macrophyllum Veitchianum, which flowered 

 at Exeter during the time of the Great 

 Exhibition held in London in the year 185 1. 

 Amongst the many who then visited London 

 for the first time was young Mr. Harry Veitch, 

 who carried with him this Dendrobium for 

 inclusion in a group of plants staged by 

 Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, at a meeting of 

 the Horticultural Society held in the Society's 

 garden at Chiswick. With that same 

 degree of thoroughness, which has been so 

 characteristic of him all through life, Mr. 

 Harry Veitch decided to personally give the 

 plant a good cleaning up before starting on 

 the historic visit to London, and he well 

 remembers the severe reprimand he received 

 when his father discovered that he had 

 pulled off every particle of skin from the 

 bulbs of that valuable Orchid. To this 



