tME ORCHID VVOkLD. 
the many importations of O. crispum several 
varieties of it have appeared varying more or 
less in form and markings, no less than nine- 
teen varieties having been certificated by the 
Royal Horticultural Society alone. The 
chances of these two species intercrossing in 
their native land are rather remote, still less 
so is the chance of specially fine varieties 
taking part, and it is not, therefore, to be 
wondered at that if in this country we use 
two selected varieties of the same species we 
obtain a variety of O. harvengtense of superior 
merit. 
The illustration opposite gives a good 
idea of the excellent variety raised by crossing 
O. crispum Raymond Crawshay with O, 
triumphans Lionel Crawshay, the latter parent 
being figured on page l8o. Both these plants 
are grand varieties, and the result is one of the 
finest shaped hybrids yet produced. When 
exhibited by de Barri Crawshay, Esq., at the 
Royal Horticultural Society, May gth, 191 1, it 
was granted an Award of Merit. The ground 
colour is primrose-yellow, effectively marked 
with light-brown blotches. 
In the Orchid collection of H. T. Pitt, Esq , 
Rosslyn, Stamford Hill, some excellent forms 
of this hybrid have recently flowered, and 
Mr. F. W. Thurgood, who sends several 
flowers from them, states that they were 
raised by crossing O. triumphans Rosslyn var. 
with O. crispum Abner Hassall, the latter 
parent being a large, blotched variety. The 
flowers are heavily marked with reddish- 
chocolate spots and blotches on a bright 
yellowish-gold ground colour, the hp being 
white and bearing the characteristic horse- 
shoe shaped blotch of O. triumphans. 
Two blotched varieties of Odontoglossum 
crispum are also sent from the same collec- 
tion, and are the result of crossing O. crispum 
Magnum Bonum with O. crispum Ashworth- 
ianum, the former being one of the best 
shaped crispums yet seen, and the latter 
parent a beautiful variety of O. crispum 
almost covered with rosy-purple blotches. 
Variation in the seedlings from this cross will 
be great, some will appear without any spots 
or blotches, while others will take after the 
crispum Ashworthianum. 
Of the flowers sent the best variety inherits 
the good form of crispum Magnum Bonum, 
and is almost covered with soft rosy-purple 
blotches, the colouring in many parts being 
solid. As may be expected from young 
seedlings the flowers are only of medium size, 
but when the plants are fully matured some 
excellent flowers will be produced. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM TROILUS. 
crispum Harryanum 
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Hallii cristatum crispum crispo-Hariyanum 
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elegaiis (Folletts) amabile 
Yet another of Mr. Sander's decorative 
plants, and a very beautiful one, for shortly 
described one could call it a "crimson 
elegans." When shown at the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, April iith, igil, with only 
five blooms on a small plant it could not fail 
to attract the eye even among its larger 
brothers and sisters. 
Mr. Sander's praiseworthy efforts to pro- 
duce these decorative and cut-flower plants 
are greatly to be commended, for some of 
these will in the future, if raised in quantity, 
be very valuable as florists' Orchids. 
The whole flower is almost solid crimson, 
being only faintly marbled here and there 
with )'ellowish-white, the blotching of the 
elegans having been converted into almost a 
ground colour though the form of the spots 
are seen of a darker blue. The lip's margin 
and apex are nearly white, the column is 
crimson. 
Cirrhosum and elegans seem to have lar 
greater power over Harryanum than any 
other species or hybrid, for its massive form is 
reduced in all the hybrids of this section to 
almost that of cirrhosum, its cousins Gladys 
and Elaine having proved the same thing, 
though some results almost make one doubt 
one's own eyes even be the evidence so 
circumstantial as to be quite clear. 
de B. Crawshay, April ijlk, igii. 
