ORCHID WORLD. 



JANUARY, 1912. 



Vol. 2. 



NOTES. 



No. 4 



Maxillaria PICTA. — A grand specimen 

 of this very fragrant BraziHan species is in 

 the collection of Col. Stephenson R. Clarke, 

 C.B., Borde Hill, Cuckfield. The plant is 

 under the care of Mr. E. Johnson, who 

 informs us that it now consists of over 400 

 bulbs and has recently produced more than 

 250 flowers. 



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Orchid Sale. — At a recent sale of dupli- 

 cates from the " Oakwood " collection, 

 Odontioda Bradshawia" Cookson's var., three 

 bulbs, realised 26 guineas ; Odontoglossum 

 crispum Luciani, four bulbs, made 13 

 guineas ; Odonto. crispum Leonard Perfect, 

 three bulbs, went for 33 guineas; and 

 Odonto. crispum Harold, two bulbs and a 

 strong growth, found a purchaser at 40 

 guineas. 



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CCELOGYNE BARRATA. — A correspondent 

 has had considerable trouble in being unable 

 to produce flowers on this useful cool-house 

 species. The plants grow well, but every 

 year, notwithstanding all care, some kind of 

 black liquid forms in the heart of the new 

 growths and rots the spike. Will successful 

 growers kindly let us know the treatment 

 they adopt for this plant? 



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Orchid v. Camera. — A London Evening 

 Paper contained the following account of a 



plant which seems to answer to the name of 

 Bulbophyllum barbigerum : — " The trembling- 

 Orchid exhibited at the Temple Show has 

 caused some amusement by its eccentric 

 behaviour towards a Press photographer. 

 For an hour and a half it defied all his efforts 

 to take its picture. Every time the operator 

 fixed his camera and posed his subject this 

 plant with nerves began to quiver violently. 

 After spoiling several plates, the persevering 

 man, brought to a state bordering on des- 

 peration, attempted to snap the Orchid with 

 a hand camera. Its tremors, however, only 

 increased. Finally it was carried to the 

 Temple conservatory, where it was sur- 

 rounded by old friends, and its nerves thus 

 being quietened, the photographer was 

 rewarded for his patience." 



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Orchid Flowers, double varieties. — 

 Many of our ordinary plants owe their so- 

 called double flowers to a petaloid condition 

 of the stamens — a not uncommon occurrence. 

 Double fiowers of Orchids, although some- 

 what rare, also generally arise from petalifica- 

 tion of the stamens, or filaments. What 

 makes these double flowers the more interest- 

 ing, states Dr. Masters, in his Vegetable 

 Teratology, is the development, in a petaloid 

 condition, of some of all of those stamens 

 which under ordinary circumstances are 

 wholly suppressed, so that the morphological 

 structure of the flower, at first a matter of 

 theory, becomes actually realised. A good 



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