THE ORCHID WORLD. 



Odonloglossum crispum Olive. From a painting by Miss M. Wallers Anson. 



Treasurer of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 and Chairman of the Orchid Committee. 

 His work, therefore, towards the advancement 

 of horticulture is continuous and praiseworthy. 



and in the words of Carlyle it may truly be 

 said : " What a man can do is his greatest 

 ornament." 



G. W. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Adioda St. Fuscien (Ada aurantiaca 



X COCHLIODA NoEZLIANA). — A new 

 bigeneric hybrid exhibited at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, August 29t]h, IQII, 

 by Mons. Henri Graire, Amiens, France. The 

 plant carried an erect spike of seven flowers, 

 about 1 1 inches in diameter, and of a reddish 

 scarlet colour. The labellum being broad 

 shouldered with a long, narrow, median lobe. 



Cattleya Remula (granulosa X 

 Mrs. Myra Peeters). — A large, well-pro- 

 portioned flower, the sepals and petals light 



mauve with a slight yellowish tinge, the hp 

 purple with a yellow isthmus. This in- 

 teresting hybrid was exhibited by Messrs. 

 Hassall and Co., at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, August 29th, igii. The frequent 

 result of crossing two wlhiite Cattleyas is a 

 coloured hybrid, due, it has been suggested, to 

 the parents not being true albinos. Cattleya 

 Mrs. Myra Peeters, a hybrid between C. 

 Gaskelliana alba and C. Warned alba, pro- 

 duces, however, a white flower, from which it 

 has been argued that the parents were true 



