THE ORCHID WORLD. 
NEW HYBRIDS. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM THISBE. 
(elegans x crispum.) 
This is a decorative plant, as its parentage 
would indicate, and for that reason Mr. Sander, 
who raised it, is to be commended, as so many 
raisers only consider it well to raise plants that 
In a careful examination of this plant it is 
quite clear that there is a tint in the " claret- 
purple," as it is called, that does not come from 
the parents as shown by their names only, but 
from their ancestry. It is found in the for- 
bears of the crispum used by M. F. Peeters, 
viz., Madame Valcke, whose blackish-purple 
blotches contain ample evidence of the power- 
ful Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum that 
helped to create it. 
The actual parents in the known 
ancestry of this plant are all well 
nown, and the adjoining portrait 
will supply all details as to 
the results of the vari- 
ous unions made by 
three hybridists, 
M. Vuylsteke, 
M. Peeters, and 
myself. 
may prove of high com- 
mercial value. By using 
Odontoglossum crispum 
Rex the hybrid has fine 
bright red-brown blotches covering 
two-thirds of its starry, cream-white 
segments, with a large horseshoe- 
shaped blotch on the lip, whose form is much 
improved from elegans by that of the crispum. 
In general appearance it is very like a finely- 
blotched form of Odontoglossum Andersoni- 
anum, of three inches diameter, with segments 
five-eighths of an inch broad. — de B. Craw- 
shay, Feb. 20, igi I. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSEFIELDIENSE. 
Award of Merit, R.H.S., January 17th, 191 1. 
nobile Harryanum 
I I 
Rolfese crispum 
Harryanum 
I 
Lambeauianum 
rosefieldiense. 
Odontoglossum rcsefieldiense. 
{-From a Photograph by Lionel de />. Ci'awshny.) 
The interesting point is that, by using one 
of the original parents again in the tertiary 
hybrid, the fine form of the crispum has not 
been detracted by that of Harryanum, but 
its deep ground colour has been superadded. 
The only point that is not quite clear is the 
