THE ORCHID WORLD. 
Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society, 
January 17th, igii. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM 
ASHWORTHIANUIVI. 
O. Edwardii X O. Ossulstonii. 
In this we have an ordinary Edwardii 
hybrid, with the deep typical solid colour. 
The tips of the segments are light violet-rose, 
and the apex of the hp is the same, but of a 
larger area than is perhaps usual, anrl the base 
of the deep Edwardii colour. The lip is less 
apiculate. Here again the complex hybrid 
parent has been almost annihilated by the 
strong "child of Nature." Raised by Mr. 
Charlesworth. 
Odonloglossum Haheyanum. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HALSEYANUM. 
This beautiful hybrid, of which the paren- 
tage IS unrecorded, received an Award of Merit 
at the Royal Horticultural Society on January 
17th, igii, when exhibited by J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq. The markings are a rich claret- 
purple on a white ground. The plant was 
well grown and carried a spike of 12 flowers. 
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TAe Gardeners' Chronicle of December 3 ist, 
19 10, contains an illustrated article on Floren- 
tine Flowers,' in which the author, Mr. W. 
Herbert Cox, states that " Under the Cypress, 
the Orchids are happiest, just as they are 
under the Aloes on the Mediterranean coast." 
Photographs are given of Orchis purpurea 
(fusca), Cephalanthera ensifolia, Serapias 
lingua, which the Ligurians appropriately 
call Hen's Mouth, though the botanical books 
name it the Tongue Orchid, and Ophrys 
arachnites, which somewhat resembles the Bee 
Orchid, but possesses a larger and very con- 
spicuous appendix. The Monkey Orchis 
(Orchis Simla) can be distinguished because 
the flowers commence to open at the top of 
the stem instead of at the bottom. 
The issue of January 14th, igi i, contains an 
illustration of Angrscum pellucidum. This 
plant, when exhibited by J. S. Bergheim, Esq., 
Belsize Court, Hampstead, on December 6th 
last, received a Botanical Certificate from the 
Orchid Committee. 
