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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[July, 1914. 



from B.-C. Marine (Digbyana x Warneri) and 

 C. Mossiae. Segments of good shape, rose- 

 pmk colour, the broad hp prettily fringed, and 

 with an orange centre. 



Brassocattl.elia Albatross. — Flowers 

 very broad and distinct, sepals and petals 

 whitish, labellum tinged with pink. The 

 parents are B.-L. Digbyano-purpurata and C. 

 Mossiae Wageneri. 



Cattleya Sybil. — Messrs. Hassall and 

 Co. have produced this hybrid by crossing C. 

 aurea with C. iridescens (bicolor x Eldorado). 

 The first one to flower resembles the well- 

 known C. Iris, but the various forms of 

 growth visible m the batch of seedlings 

 suggest that much variety will be seen when 

 others flower. No doubt there will be several 

 improvements on C. iridescens. 



L^lio-Cattleya Dryad. — The result of 

 crossing L.-C. Martinetii and C. Schroderae. 

 Of pale buff colour, flushed with rose. Raised 

 by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 



Cymbidium Sappho. — An interesting 

 hybrid between Lowianum Pitt's var. and 

 I'Ansonii. The plant carried a spike of six 

 blooms closely resembling I'Ansonii, although 

 showing good evidence of Lowianum. Raised 

 b}- Mr. Thurgood in the Rosslyn collection. 



OdONTIODA Irene. — Obtained by crossing 

 Od. Uro-Skinneri with Odontioda Charles- 

 worthii. Raised by Messrs. Charlesworth, and 

 of considerable utility for breeding purposes. 



Odontoglossum Nebulum. — A very 

 interesting hybrid combining the three 

 Mexican species nebulosum, maculatum and 

 Rossii. The exact parentage is nebulosum x 

 aspersum (maculatum x Rossii). This cross 

 was made several years ago by Mr. Stevens, 

 in the Walton Grange collection, but the only 

 plant raised, now consisting of two large 

 pieces, did not flower until this spring, when 

 under the care of Mr. J. Howes. 



Odontioda Ashtonii. — A very pleasing 

 hybrid produced by crossing O. Armstrongias 

 with C. Noezliana. The reddish colour, derived 

 from the latter parent, is broken up in 

 symmetrical style, thus imparting a very 

 distinct appearance. Recently exhibited by 

 Mr. E. R. Ashton, Broadlands, Tunbridge 

 Wells. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM ORTRUD. 



Harryanum triumphans 



nobile Queen Alexandra 



I . I var. Carmen 



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Ortrud. 



By using a good ordinary unspotted nobile 

 it would have been expected that a bloom 

 somewhat analagous to an amabile would be 

 the result in this hybrid. Not at all, at least 

 in the first to bloom ; better things may, I 

 hope, follow. 



The masses of yellow and brown of the 

 parent have been assumed by the white 

 ground and to all intents the plant would pass 

 as a small variety of its father, except that 

 the keen eye of the hybridist would at once 

 see the influence of nobile in its structure of 

 lip and column, and the somewhat modified 

 form of the flower. 



The colours are identical to the parent, 

 rich yellow ground heavily overlaid by brown 

 sepals and petals, the lip also being marked 

 in the same way by rather more of a purplish 

 shade of brown. 



It is most interesting to see how the great 

 strength of the triumphans is handed down ; 

 there is no mistaking it as a potential factor 

 in the hybrids, not only of the first generation, 

 but it will carry on down the line for several 

 further crosses, and when better shape is 

 acquired in the triumphans hybrids they will 

 make a very fine race. It is a pity there 

 is only one variety of triumphans that is 

 super-excellent. 



I bloomed Od. Ortrud in May, 19 14. 

 de B. Crawshay, Roscficld, June §th, igi4^. 



Brussels Exhibition. — On October 24th, 

 25th and 26th, 1914, the Societe Royale 

 de Flore, the Societe Royale Linneene and 

 the Societe Bruxelles-Attractions will hold a 

 Floral Exhibition in the Salle de la Madeleine, 

 rue Duquesnoy, Brussels. Nine sections will 

 be devoted to Orchids, and amongst the 

 prizes are two Gold Medals, value 300 and 

 200 francs resuectively. 



