THE ORCHID WORLD. 
7S 
ODONTIODAS. 
By DE BARRl CRAWSHAY. 
M 
•AY 31st, 1904! Less than the pro- 
verbial " In seven years a change 
occurs in the lives of men " has it 
taken to prove this saying as regards " Red 
Odontoglossums." The calm, almost indif- 
ferent, nonchalance exhibited now at a 
remarkable advance in " Reds " is a curious 
contrast to the immense furore created by 
Odoniioda Yuylstekece which on that day I 
had the satisfaction of naming. 
It was amusing to see the ina'edulous look 
and hear the pitying remark when I stated 
it was " only a question of time that we should 
see a scarlet crispum." This has almost been 
achieved in Odontioda St. Fiiscien Imperator, 
shown by M. Henri Graire (F.C.C., R.H.S., 
June 7th, igio), and it contains the addi- 
tional blotchinp- which I did not then refer 
Odoniioda St. Fuscien Imperalor. 
(" R.H.S. Journal.") 
Odoniioda VuyUiekee. 
From a photograph by G. T. Gregory, Croydon, 
iak.en in the Temple Show, 31st May, 1904. 
to, and it is to ail intents a 
scarlet blotched crispum. The 
unblotched form will come 
before we are very much 
older. 
The addition, of Odoniioda 
Charlesworthii, thus linking 
up that magnificent species 
Odontoglossum Harryaiuim, 
coupled to the primogenitor 
of this race and the above- 
named variety, open up a 
vista into the far future that 
anyone would have hardly 
dareid to expect in the short 
time since the first " Red " 
bloomed. 
This field, wide as it is, and 
embracing the reddening of the 
whole genus Odontoglossum, 
