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ORCHID WORLD. 



JULY, 1914. 



NOTES. 



The Davidson Cup. — We learn with 

 regret that the donor of this handsome trophy 

 has decided to withdraw the same from 

 competition during the year 1915. 



Relics of the Past. — Through the 

 l<indness of Dr. Conrad Loddiges, the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Lindley Library has 

 been enriched by the addition of some old 

 catalogues of the renowned firm of Messrs. 

 Loddiges and Sons. Three of them are 

 specially devoted to Orchids, and bear the 

 dates respectively 1839, 1841 and 1844. The 

 title pages bear the following inscription : 

 " Orchideae in the collection of Conrad 

 Loddiges and Sons, Hackney, near London, 

 arranged according to Dr. Lindley's ' Genera 

 and Species,' with their nati\e countries, 

 years of introduction and references to 

 figures." 



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Obituary. — We regret to announce the 

 death of Mr. Richd. le Doux, of Marlfield, 

 West Derby, Liverpool, who had been an 

 ardent lover of Orchids for more than thirty 

 years. Of the many plants of interest 

 exhibited from his collection we may mention 

 Aerides odoratum, a unique specimen 

 originally in the possession of Mr. E. S. Rand, 

 of Para, and which was awarded a Silver 

 Medal by the Manchester Orchid Society, 

 August, i8g8, when shown by Mr. le Doux. 

 It was well worthy of the award, for it carried 

 no less than 60 racemes. An account of the 

 Marlfield collection appeared in the Orthid 

 World, June, 1913. 



CaLANTHE RoLLISSONII. — This IS one of 

 the early hybrids whose history is imper- 

 fectly known. It was originally raised by 

 Rollisson, of Tooting, but at what precise 

 date has never been ascertained. The 

 parentage is veratrifolia x masuca. Hansen, 

 in his Orchid Hybrids, issued November, 

 1895, quotes Bergman's Orchidees des Semis, 

 and repeats the latter's remark : " Nous ne 

 savon SI cette variete vit toujours." Bergman's 

 work is unfortunately inaccessible, and 

 consequently provides us with no earlier date 

 than 1895. The discovery of an original 

 Orchid catalogue of Messrs. RoUisson, bearing 

 the date April, 1877, provides additional 

 assistance by proving that Calanthe RoUis- 

 sonii existed at that period, and as it is not 

 included in the section devoted to New and 

 Rare Plants we may conclude that it had 

 been known for some time previously. It 

 is described as a garden raised hybrid 

 between veratrifolia and masuca, requiring an 

 intermediate temperature, and offered at three 

 guineas. 



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Cattleya Eldorado concolor. — This 

 species was first imported in 1866 by M. 

 Linden from Rio Negro, Brazil. It is an 

 early autumn flowering plant, but is not much 

 cultivated in present-day collections. Mr. E. 

 Baxter Cox, of Adelaide, S. Australia, has 

 recently flowered a self-coloured variety, 

 named concolor, in which the flower is a 

 uniform rose-pink colour, excepting, of course, 

 the yellow in the throat. The typical purplish 

 blotch on the labellum is entirely eliminated, 

 and if any distinction can be made it is that 

 the lip is slighter lighter than the sepals and 



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