THE 



ORCHID WORLD. 



Vol. 2. 



OCTOBER. 1911 



No. I. 



NOTES, 



Odontoglossum Smithii. — This most 

 beautiful and very distinct hybrid, the subject 

 of our coloured plate, is the result of crossing 

 O. Rossii rubescens with O. crispo-Harry- 

 anum, and when exhibited by Messrs. 

 Charlesworth at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, December 5th, 1905, it was 

 deserv^edly awarded a First-class Certificate. 

 The plant soon after passed into the noted 

 collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., where 

 it has much increased in size. Owing to the 

 comparatively small quantity of seed pro- 

 duced by O. Rossii, and the great difficulty 

 experienced in raising it, hybrids from this 

 Mexican species will always remain scarce. 



MiLTONIA VEXILLARIA LEOPOLDII. — 

 Seedlings, the result of self-fertilising this 

 distinct variety noted for the elegant crimson 

 blotch of colour on the labellum, have recently 

 been flowered by Mr. W. Bolton, of War- 

 rington. In one, flowering for the first time, 

 the rich blotch has extended considerably 

 beyond its usual position, and in the form of 

 small spots the colour is carried to the margin 

 of the labellum. It is very distinct and gives 

 promise of still further improvement. 



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Cattleya Iris. — A fine variety of this 

 beautiful hybrid has recently been flowered 



by Mr. J. Shelton, The Wildernesse Gardens, 

 Sevenoaks. It has the peculiarity of two per- 

 fect flowers on one stalk, the two ovaries 

 being connected by a thin membrane. 



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Cattleya Hardyana Countess of 

 Derby. — This magnificent variety originally 

 appeared in the Stand Hall collection in 

 September, 1894. It was at first considered 

 to be a variety of Cattleya Warscewiczii, but 

 the unmistakable characters of Cattleya 

 Hardyana shown in the flower caused it to 

 be soon afterwards regarded as a very rare 

 variety of this hybrid. This season it has 

 flowered in exceptionally good form in the 

 noted collection of J. J. Holden, Esq., South- 

 port, and Mr. Johnson, who has so successfully 

 grown the plant, sends the three flowered 

 inflorescence. The sepals and petals are very 

 broad and well-formed, of a remarkable 

 rreamy-white colour, an extremely rare con- 

 dition due to the absence of the purple pig- 

 ment normally possessed by Cattleya Wars- 

 cewiczii. The lip is intense purple almost 

 covered with the rich crimson-purple derived 

 from the Cattleya aurea parent, the side lobes 

 being conspicuously marked with the bright 

 yellow blotches which are always to be seen 

 in Cattleya Warscewiczii, and with rich purple 

 and gold markings extending to the base of 

 the column. 



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