TH E 



ORCHID WORLD. 



JANUARY. 1914. 



No. 



4. 



NOTES 



Orchid Committee. — We understand that 

 the constitution of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Orchid Committee will remain the 

 same. There will be no new members for the 

 current year. 



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Chelsea Show, 1914. — We are glad to be 

 able to state that the objectionable restric- 

 tions imposed upon Orchid exhibitors at the 

 forthcoming Chelsea Show have been with- 

 drawn. The groups will probably be arranged 

 along one end of the large tent, and the 

 staging will be about seven feet in width, 

 exhibitors having the privilege of staging 

 their plants to almost any desired height. 



An Albino Result. — Messrs. Stuart Low 

 and Co. have lately flowered a hybrid 

 between Cattleya Gaskelliana alba and C. 

 labiata Purity, the result being pure white, 

 with the usual yellow m the throat. This 

 beautiful hybrid, previously recorded as C. 

 Alcimeda, has since passed into the noted 

 collection of Mr. Chas. J. Phillips, of 

 Sevenoaks. 



Obituary. — We much regret to record the 

 death of Dr. Giovanni Piccinelli, of Seriate, 

 Italy, who was an enthusiastic amateur 

 cultivator of Orchids. 



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Sale of Mexican L^lias. — Messrs. 

 Protheroe and Morris have recently sold by 

 auction the remaining portion of the collec- 

 tion of Mexican Laslias formed by Mr. de 



Barri Crawshay. Several of the plants were 

 small propagated pieces, and there was a 

 good demand for them, the followmg prices 

 being of mterest : — La?lia Schroderae Theo- 

 dora, 2 gns. ; L. Schroderae Crawshayana, 

 1 8s. ; L. Schroderiana Crawshayana, £2 los. ; 

 L. Hollidayana rosefieldiensis, 35s.; L. 

 Hollidayana Theodora, 37s. 6d. ; L. anceps 

 Crawshayana, 32s. 6d. ; Odontoglossum 

 waltoniense, 3^ gns. ; O. crispum Mrs. de B. 

 Crawshay, 8 gns. ; and Odontioda Vuylstekeae 

 Crawshayana, Sh gns. This well-knov.'n 

 collection, commenced m the year 1882, has 

 always been the finest of its kind, and the 

 dispersal of the remaining portion marks the 

 termination of a long period of careful study 

 and interest taken in the plants by Mr. 

 Crawshay. The site occupied by the house 

 in which they were cultivated has been used 

 for the erection of a new Odontoglossum 

 house. 



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Flowers in Season. — If any proof is 

 wanted that Orchids may be had in flower 

 during every week of the year, we have it in a 

 selection of Odontoglossums kindly sent by 

 Mr. Jas. Smith, Orchid grower to Mr. R. 

 Brooman-White, at Garelochhead. Flowers 

 in mid-winter are always pleasing, and if any 

 one species of Odontoglossum has assisted 

 more than another in making pretty flowers it 

 is Harryanum. These examples include Od 

 Prince Edward of Wales (crispo-Harryanum 

 X Rolfea?), a pretty variety with the spots 

 very evenly distributed ; Od. venustulum 

 (crispo-Harryanum x ardentissimum), with 

 reddish-purple blotching ; Od. Aireworth 



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