thf: orchid world. 



[Aug-ust, 1915. 



Odontoglossum crispum The Baroness. 



Odontoglossum crispum The 

 Baroness. — That the majority of blotched 

 crispums are beautiful flowers no one will 

 deny, but exactly by what means the 

 blotching has been produced is not an easy 

 point to decide. When several species grow 

 within a comparatively short distance of one 

 another there are opportunities for the pollen 

 to be transferred from the one to the other, 

 with the result that hybrids are produced, and 



these must occur all the more frequently when 

 certain species grow intermixed, as they 

 sometimes do. Of species with blotched 

 flowers likely to create hybrids of the kind 

 illustrated above, there are triumphans, 

 luteopurpureum and Hunnewellianum, all of 

 which may be found growing with or near 

 crispum. O. crispum The Baroness represents 

 one of the finest varieties in this section, not 

 only on account of the blotching being of 



