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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
segments being of the same colour as the 
blotch ; in fact, two different h\-bnds could 
hardly be more alike in the arrangement of 
their coloration. Evidently Odontoglossuni 
nobile is a very powerful agent with a Coch- 
lioda, and we can bear this in mind when 
trying to obtain certain results in the future. 
The Rossii group only contains one mem- 
ber as yet, Graircana ; but there is no doubt 
that this group in time will be a very 
important one when we get the 
secondary crosses herein. 
Odontioda Utitcrfc 
{Cochlioda X oezliana x 
0 doni 0 glossum Uro 
Skinner i) is dis- 
appointing. In 
colour ths red 
has some- 
w h a t 
one 
Charlesworth had already named a cross 
between Cochlioda 'Noezliana and Odonto- 
glossuni aniabile as Odontioda Diana at the 
R.H.S., April 5th, 1910), King George V., and 
Royal Gem. 
Cassiope has a most extraordinary way of 
sporting about, and as yet is disappointing, 
and, I fear, always will be (those goddesses 
always were capricious). The next two I 
Oduntioda BradihaWia 
Weslonbirl oar. 
down be- 
fore the purple 
of U ro-Skinneri ; 
but Cochlioda has 
made a t/iumphant \'ictory 
in reducing the size. This probably may- 
make a fine secondary cross with the right 
parent. 
I now come to the secondary crosses as a 
group: Cassiope, .Sensation, M. Ch. Vuylsteke's 
cross between Odontioda Vuylstekecp and 
Odontoglossiim crispum, which he named 
Diana at Brussels, April 30th, igio (but 
which name must be suppressed, as ^Ir. 
have not seen, 
but am told 
they much re- 
sembled the pai/ ]M. \'u\ lsteke showed 
at the Temple Show-, igio. In these, 
King George V . and Royal Gem, we 
have a really fine pattern in the secondar\' 
h} brid, the arrangement of the spotting being 
most beautiful ; but I am sorry to say the 
red is fast disappearing, and a couple more 
crosses pursuing the same line of descent will, 
I fear, entirely eliminate it, thus defeating the 
object we have in view, that of creating "reds, 
and not " pinks." There needs an infusion of 
new blood to heighten the colour of the red 
of the two first-named, and that can best be 
attained by using Odontioda C harlesicorthii, 
thus harnessing once again the power of 
Odontoglossuni Harryanum to transmit the 
acquired ruby-red colour. 
It is ver\- remarkable indeed to see the 
great similarit)- of the arrangement of the 
