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THE ORCHIU WORLD. 



[!• eljruary, 1014. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM MIRABEAU. 



Width of flower 3g inches. 



crispum luteopurpureum n o b i 1 e Harryanum 



Wilckeanum crispum Roltett crispum 



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_ mirum Lambeauianum 



Mirabeau. 



It IS ;i remarkable thing that the influence of 

 nobile when carried through Lambeauianum 

 sliould be ahnost mvariably the cause of 

 a good resultant. Taken on balance the 

 hybrids of nobile and Harrj-anum are finer 

 than crispum and Harryanum. 



Mirabeau conforms to this theory, and is 

 a really massive thing, as shown by the 

 accompanying block. Sepals and petals 

 white ground tinted with rose, more so on 

 the former than on the latter ; the heavy 

 markings are all chocolate-brown on the 

 sepals, those on the petals containing much 

 more purple in the compounding shade of 

 colour. Peculiarly enough, the brown and 

 white of the blotches and ground colour 

 reverse themselves in the sepals and petals. 

 Lip tinted white with shining brown markings 

 and marginal spotting. Crest and channel 



chrome-yellow. Column-head deep burnt 

 crimson-brown. 



The resulting progeny of this plant some 

 years hence will be very interesting as I have 

 made a couple of peculiar crosses with it. 

 de B. Crawshay, Rosefield, Jan. 14th, 1^14- 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CLEOPATRA 

 ROSEFIELD VAR. 



(Carmania x Vuylstekei), A.M., R.H,S., 

 Dec. 16th, 1913. 



This particular variety has proved the 

 finest of the cross, and has assumed almost 

 all the various characters of the complex 

 parentage, but in an improved manner by 

 combination of the good qualities and rejec- 

 tion of the worse ones. Size, colour, form, 

 substance are all here ; weediness, dull tints, 

 puny form and shape are all rejected. The 

 exact measurement of the flower across the 

 petals is 3§ inches. 



Almost the entire surface is of a rich, 

 slightly purplish Venetian red, the tips of the 

 sepals and petals are light yellow, the lip 



