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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



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Odonloslossum ardentissirnum V iolelle. 



Odontoglossum ARDENTISSIMUM. — This 

 artificially raised hybrid between O. crispum 

 and O. Pescatorci has been a favourite with 

 one and all ever since its first appearance in 

 London, May, 1902, when exhibited at the 

 Temple Show by M. Chas. Vuylsteke, of 

 Ghent. Some few years previous, in 

 December, 189S, a similar hybrid was 

 flowered by Baron E. Rothschild, Armain- 

 villiers, France, and exhibited by him under 

 the name O. armainvillierensc, which is in 

 fact the earliest and consequently the correct 

 title, but unfortunately it was evidently 

 forgotten at the time when M. Vuylsteke 

 showed his plant in 1902. The adjoining 

 illustration shows a handsome variety in the 

 collection of Mr. Wm. Thompson, Walton 

 Grange, Stone, where it is known under the 

 name O. ardentissimum Violette. 



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CATASETUM iMSr HOOTIANA. — This curious 



species was introduced by Messrs. Linden, of 

 Brussels, through their collector M. F. Claes, 

 who discovered it in Brazil. ft appears to 

 have first flowered under cultivation in 

 November, 1895, when a ])lant carrying a 

 spike of more than thirty flowers was 

 exhibited at the Forty-sixth Meeting of 

 L'Orchideene, and received a First-class 

 Diploma of Ffonour. In September, 1908, it 

 bloomed in the collection of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., and on being exhibited at 

 the Royal Horticultural Society obtained a 

 Botanical Certificate. During the same 

 month another plant flowered in the collection 

 of Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, Rillington, York, 

 whose able grower, Mr. F. C. Puddle, kindly 

 sends this season's spike of fourteen blooms. 

 This species is closely allied to I^indley's C. 

 Hookeri, and produces yellowish-green 

 flowers with the hood-shaped li]) uppermosi;, 

 and the rostelluni prtjlonged into a pair of 

 antennjc which; when touched, cause the 

 pollen to be thrown out. 



