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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



example of the above has occurred with Mr. 

 A. W. Jensen, Lindfield, Haywards Heath, 

 who has recently flowered for the second time 

 a plant of Odontoglossum crispum having 

 flowers possessing twelve to fifteen sepals and 

 petals. 



T^hynchostylis retusa alha. 



Rhynchostylis retusa, Bliime. — This 

 elegant species has received many names ; 

 Lindley called it Saccolabium guttatum, under 

 which it is, perhaps, better known in gardens. 

 It is widely distributed from India to Java, 

 but many local varieties have been too often 

 treated and named as species. The flowers 

 are usually white or pink, with numerous 



violet-purple markings, the front lobe of the 

 lij) bemg wholly purple. Our illustration is 

 of a jjure-white variety which was sent, about 

 twelve months ago, to the well-known collec- 

 tion of Gust. H. Miiller-Abeken, Esq., The 

 Hague, Holland, where it has recently pro- 

 duced two fine pendulous racemes, only one of 

 ^^•hlch is reproduced. When the photograph 

 was taken the flowers had been open a fort- 

 night and did not show the slightest sign of 

 fading. ^ ^. 



The International Exhibition of 

 18(19. — The following note, which is taken 

 from Williams' OrcJud Manual for 1877, will, 

 owing to the coming great event of 191 2, not 

 be uninteresting. " Mr. Robert Warner, in 

 1869, sent upwards of fifty specimen Orchids 

 from his gardens at Broomfield to the 

 International Horticultural Exhibition at 

 St. Petersburgh. These plants were care- 

 fully packed in close cases and sent by rail 

 the whole journey, saving the short run by 

 steamer across the Channel, eight days being 

 occupied in the transport. When unpacked 

 and staged they were in excellent condition, 

 having suffered during the journey no more 

 than they would have done in the houses at 

 home. That these plants should travel to 

 St. Petersburgh in such excellent condition 

 is undoubtedly the greatest feat in connec- 

 tion with horticultural exhibitions that has 

 ever been accomplished, especially when it is 

 stated that they were all large plants — 

 amongst them Phalsnopsis Schilleriana, with 

 a hundred expanded blooms ; P. grandiflora, 

 with about half the number ; Vandas, with 

 numerous spikes ; Trichopilia crispa, with a 

 hundred open flowers ; Cattlevas, Den- 

 drobiums, Odontoglossums, Cypripediums, 

 brides, and several other genera, the whole 

 being profusely bloomed. A remarkable 

 proof of what care will do with even the 

 most delicate flowers was given in the case of 

 the plant of Odontoglossum crispum exhibited 

 in this collection, which, after standing at the 

 St. Petersburgh Exhibition for a fortnight, 

 was again packed up and exhibited three 

 weeks later at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Gardens at Kensington, with the 

 loss of only one or two flowers." 



