THE ORCHID WORLD. 



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B.-L.-C. Lua was catalogued by Messrs. 

 Charlesworth in 1909. 



L.cinnabarina C.Schrodeiae B.Digbyana L.cinnabarina 



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L.-C.G.S.Ball B.-L. Mrs. Gralrix 



B.-L.-C. Lua 



The above will show the very large pro- 

 portion of Laelia cinnabarina in this hybrid. 

 The cinnabar colour is much in evidence, 

 although the shape of many of the flowers is 

 rather poor. Still, out of the many plants 

 from this pod, there is always the remote 

 possibility of one appearing having the size 

 and shape of Cattleya Schroderae, the fringed 

 lip of Brassavola Digbyana, and the rich 

 colour of Laelia cinnabarina ; and, if so, what 

 a triumph for the raiser. 



B.-L.-C. Winnifred was first flowered in 

 1910 by Messrs. Charlesworth, the bright- 

 yellow colour of the flower bemg derived from 

 the Lslia flava in the following ancestry : — 



B.Digbyana L.cinnabaiina L.flava C.Trianae 



B.-L. Mrs. Gratrix L.-C. iMyra 



B.-L.-C. Winnifred 



It by no means follows that all the seedlings 

 from this pod will produce yellow flowers, for 

 the L. cinnabarina and the C. Trianae iwill 

 affect the colour and shape in many of them. 

 There is an advantage in working with 

 hybrids containing several highly coloured 

 species for more than one shade of colour is 

 frequently produced in the final results. As 

 the object in view was to obtain more colour 

 one might wonder why such a light coloured 

 species as Cattleya Trianae is included in the 

 parentage. But a hybridist frequently finds 

 that the plant he desires to work with is either 

 unobtainable or not in flower at the requisite 

 time, hence he is forced to use a hybrid con- 

 taining this particular species in the hope that 

 its characters will ultimately produce the 

 desired result. It should also be noted that 

 B. Digbyana, L. cinnabarina, and L. flava are 

 all very narrow petaled flowers, and, there- 

 fore, without the inclusion of one or more 



broad petaled kinds, such as C. Trianae, the 

 hybrid would be of a poor, starry nature. 



G. VV. 



TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS. 



This very sweet hawthorn-scented cool 

 house Orchid usually blossoms during the 

 months of April, May, and June. The bulbs 

 are rather thin and bear a large single leaf 

 somewhat resembling that of Odontoglossum 

 grande. The flowers, three to five of which 

 are produced on short horizontal spikes, are 

 creamy-white, the hp yellow in the throat, and 

 spotted with rose-pink on the sides. 



The following particulars as to its habitat 

 are given by E. Morren in the Belgique 

 Hortkole for 1874: — ■ 



" This charming flower was discovered 

 in 1848 by Warscewicz, in Costa Rica, 

 on the Cordillera at an altitude of 5,000 

 to 9,000 feet. The finest specimens were 

 met with on the volcano of Chiriqui, at 

 an altitude of 8,000 feet, where the ther- 

 mometer ranges from 50 to 60 degrees F. ; 

 some of the plants measuring two feet in cir- 

 cumference, and bearing from forty to eighty 

 flowers at a time. Warscewicz sent the plants 

 to M. Skinner, of London, remarking that 

 they grew on the trunks of oaks, species of 

 Trichilia, and on Cupania glabra, at from 

 20 to 40 feet above the ground, but never 

 lower down, and when the trees fall through 

 age or any other circumstance, the Tricho- 

 pilias soon languish and die. At Chiriqui, at 

 this altitude, there is a dry season lasting from 

 November till April, when there is neither 

 rain nor dew, and the wind is often very 

 violent, but throughout the remainder of the 

 year both rains and dews are copious and 

 frequent." 



In the year 1850 it flowered in the collec- 

 tion of R. S. Holford, Esq., at Westonbirt, and 

 about the same time in the collections of Mrs. 

 Lawrence, at Ealing, and of Messrs. Loddiges, 

 at Hackney. Some two years later it was 

 figured in the Botanical Magazine, t 4654, 

 from a plant which flowered in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Lucombe, Pmce and Co. 



