ORCHID WORLD. 



MARCH, !9I4. 



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Orchidists Honoured.- -M. Fumin 

 Lambeau and Charles Dietrich, tlie 



well-known Belgium Orchidists, have Ijeen 

 respectively elected President of honour and 

 IMember of honour of the Florale Ixelloise. 



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A Valuable Prize. — Mr. W. H. Viner, 

 head clerk in the employ of Messrs. Charles- 

 worth and Co., has recently won a prize of 

 £ioo in a competition in the Competitors 

 Journal. 



A New ORrniD Company. — Under the 

 style of E. H. Davidson and Co., Orchid Dene, 

 Twyford, Berks, a company has been formed 

 to carry on the business commenced recently 

 by Mr. Davidson. Mr. James B. Lakin is 

 the managing" partner. 



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The Davidson Cup. — The annual Silver 

 Cup presented by Mr. E. H. Davidson will be 

 awarded m open competition at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Chelsea Show, May 

 igth to 2ist, for the "Finest Cattle\a, not a 

 hybrid, in the Show." This will be a similar 

 competition to that of last year. 



PelorIATE CaTTLEYA.— From the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Arthur Grant, Rugby House, 

 Cleethorpes, comes an attractive flower of 

 Cattleya Percivaliana, in which the two lower 

 sepals are coloured in a similar way to the 

 kibellum, to which they also show some 

 resemblance in shape. This is an instance of 



false peloria, for the sepals belong to the 

 outer whorl of perianth segments, while the 

 labellum is p;irt of the inner whorl. 



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The Burford Collection.— The late 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., bequeathed his 

 collection of plants to Lady Lawrence, but 

 expressed a wish that plants of botanical 

 interest should be presented to Kew. The 

 botanical Orchids in the Burford collection 

 are very numerous, and their removal to Kew 

 will greatly add to the interesting plants in 

 these world-renowned gardens. 



A Handsome Flower.— Mr. Jas. Smith 

 sends from the Arddarroch collection a flower 

 of Odontoglossum ardentissinium var. Lotte 

 Brucke, which was ])urchased at the sale of 

 Mr. Muller Abeken's plants. The shape is 

 particularly good, while the colour leaves 

 nothing to be desired, being of rich purple- 

 crimson, except for a narrow wliitt^ margin 

 round the segments. 



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Corallorhiza multiflora.— Flowers of 

 this wild woodland Orchid I am sending as a 

 sample of our native plants. It has a much 

 branched coral-like root, from which the 

 generic name is derived. It is a little incon- 

 spicuous plant found along with the Indian 

 Pipes and Pine-Sap Orchids, and resembles 

 them in having no foliage. It is one of those 

 plants which unbotanical people consider 

 unworthy of the name Orchid. The flowers 



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