174 THE ORCHID WORLD. 
and brown g.-g.-grandparents left. This 
plant shows us how Dame Nature has made 
some of the plants some of ns have called 
" crispums." 
The texture of this flower tells the tale far 
sooner than aught else. It is as stiff and 
thick as a triumphans of the heavy latise- 
palum type, and the lip also bears the distinct 
bifid keel of the same ancestor ; otherwise 
there is but very little to tell the expert, and 
not/ling for the tyro, that it is not a crispum, 
for the solid brown areas of Vulcan have been 
" assumed " by the similar areas of the 
blotched crispum, and only large tips and 
narrow margins remain of the soft pale rose 
colour ; even the lip is not white, but has a 
trace of the same shade. The column is small 
and short as in a crispum, but has more of the 
form of triumphans, as have also the wings. 
The photograph will give confirmation to 
these remarks. 
Mr. Sander has almost succeeded in 
eliminating the other species and making a 
crispum out of " not a crispum " of a most 
peculiar shade of colour, the blotched areas 
being- of a sort of lilacish-rcd-brown, a shade 
I ha\'e not seen before. 
In a generation or two more there is no 
doubt that it will Ije impossible to say what 
some Odontoglossums are unless }'ou know 
all about them before you speak. 
de B. Craivshay, Marc It 29//^, igi i. 
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Destruction of Insects. — Spirit of wine, in 
the form of vapour, has been tried to destroy 
scale and other insects on ]>lants. The plant 
experimented upon was i^ut into an empty 
w^ater-tub, and covered up close to retain the 
steam ; a small vessel full of hot water was 
placed beside the plant, over which a cup was 
placed containing the spirit. In this operation 
six hours seem to be about the time required. 
The quantity of spirit should be in proportion 
to the space intended to be filled. For a 
common water-tub, if the spirits are good, a 
wine-glass full is quite sufficient. Several 
Orchidaceous plants have been cleaned by this 
process without being in the least injured. — 
James Donald, Journal of the Horticultural 
Society, 1846. 
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Messrs. Wm. Wood and Son's Country 
Estate Catalogue is to hand. It consists of 
ifio pages, all profusely illustrated, and con- 
taining a vast amount of useful information 
and new ideas. 
The Orchid House of Mr. J. C. Harvey, Sanborn, Mexico. 
