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THE ORCHin WORLD. 
Odonloglossum iriumphans Lionel Craicshay. 
Froiii ,t jtii ill ting by Miss Louis-' A 1 1 i il gli iitii . 
its name indicates, resembles snow. It is 
impossible to include the names of all the 
fine white varieties of crispum m this 
house, so one must conclude the list with 
the following: — 'Isolde, Lady Buchan, 
Briinnhilde, Mrs. de B. Crawshay, and 
xanthotes White's variety. It is worthy of 
note that Venus took the R.H.S. First 
Diploma both times for an " unspotted 
crispum," as did triumphans Lionel Craw- 
shay in the class for its species. 
The noble blotched forms are well repre- 
sented, the finest of all being crispum 
Queen of the Earth, a wonderfully coloured 
variety ; de Barri, a very distinct and 
perfect-shaped flower ; Lionel Crawshay, 
Raymond Crawshay, Crawshayanum, Im- 
perator, rosefieldiense, Mariae, Poultonii, 
Blue Spot, Beatrice, Theodora, and Ste- 
vensii, many of which have received awards 
at the principal meetings of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. Odontoglossum 
Harryanum Theodora is Mr. 
Cravvshav's finest \ariety of 
this siaecies, now so much 
used for hybridising pur- 
poses. 
Since 1885 the fascinating 
work of h)-bridis.ition has 
been earned on with con- 
siderable success, hundreds 
of plants being now of 
flowering size. Mr. Crawshay 
was among the pioneers in 
raising Odontoglossums, and 
he looks back now in wonder 
at the repeated failures of 
those earl)' days of experi- 
ment and loss oi baby seed- 
lings. But, nothing daunted, 
and dct(-rmined to succeed, 
he went on, though it was 
fourteen years before lie 
bloomed his first seedling in 
Hallio - crispum Crawshay- 
anum, which jilant he would 
not part with " for worlds." 
Among the man\- fine 
hybrids to be recorded are 
a splendid Odontoglossum 
Odonloglossum eximium Crawshayanum. 
Fiuin a pholos;iaph (iidiiicd) hy Limicl Ciau's/my. 
