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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



Messrs. Th. Pauwels and Co., Meirel- 

 BEKE. — La Tribune Hortuole, in the issue of 

 February 3rd, igi2, gives illustrations of 

 Odontoglossum crispum "Pauwels' Perfec- 

 tion," Cattleya Mrs. Pitt " sine sequa," and 

 Brasso-Cattleya Senateur de Bast, all meri- 

 torious Orchids in their collection. Portraits 

 are also given of M. Th. Pauwels and of the 

 special prize offered by M. Jules Hye de 

 Crom which has recently been won for the 

 first time by Messrs. Pauwels and Co. 



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LiELIO-CATTLEYA IXION. — The parentage 

 of this new hybrid is L.-C. Myra (L. flava x 

 C. Triana?) x C. Octave Doin (Mendelii x 

 aurea), and the results vary according to the 

 different ways in which the specific characters 

 unite. In the example shown by Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co., at the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, February 6th, 191 2, the 

 broad sepals and petals were clear canary- 

 yellow and the labellum blotched with ruby- 

 purple, the flower evidently possessing much 

 of the L. flava and C. aurea colour determin- 

 ants. This plant is a decided advance in the 

 creation of a large yellow flower. 



CypRIPEDIUM CurTO-PHYLLUM.— Under 

 this name two good flowers of a hybrid 

 between Cypripedium Curtisii and C. glauco- 

 phyllum are sent from the collection of H. T, 

 Pitt, Esq., Stamford Hill. Hybrids of this 

 parentage flowered, in the year 1910, in the 

 collection of Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, Essen 

 Ruhr, Germany, but they do not appear to 

 have been named. The flowers are very 

 intermediate m form and colour, the charac- 

 teristics of both parents being plainly visible. 



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L.elio-Cattleya Golden Gem. — This 

 is one of those much appreciated h\'brids 

 having a bright golden-yellow colour. The 

 parentage is Laelia Latona (cinnabarina x 

 purpurata) x Laelio-Cattleya Ophir (xanthinii 

 X aurea), from which one wou'd e.xpect a 

 large proportion of }'cIlo'W flowering seed- 

 lings. This new hyhrid, which is flowering on 



a very small plant, has been raised by Mr. 

 Thurgood, Orchid grower to H. T. Pitt, Esq. 

 When the plant becomes stronger larger and 

 better shaped flowers will be produced. The 

 labellum is obscurely three iobed, flushed and 

 veined with purple on the margin. From the 

 same collection comes a flower of a new hybrid 

 between Odontoglossum crispo-Harr)'anum 

 and Od. Andersonianum ; tne powerful nature 

 of the gloriosum is very noticeable ; and also 

 hybrid resulting from Od. Duvivierianum 

 X Od. crispum, but there is no evidence of 

 anything else than crispum in the flower. It 

 will be of interest to watch the flowering of 

 other seedlings from this pod. 



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Albino Hybrids. — Flybndisation has 

 yielded many unthcught of results, the cross- 

 ing of albino forms being a notable instance. 

 One would e.xpect pure-white flowers on the 

 hybrid seedlings raised from albino parents, 

 but such, as e.Kperience has proved, is not 

 always the pleasing result. Dendrobium 

 nobile virginale, a pure-white variety, has, 

 when crossed with its own pollen, produced 

 healthy seedlings, every ome of which has 

 carried pure white flowers. Tins experiment 

 has been repeated by several growers, the 

 results in all cases being the same. Cypripe- 

 dium insigne Sanderse has also yielded albino 

 seedlings, and so ha\e some of the albino 

 Cattleya species. By some unknown reason 

 there is absolutely no certainty regarding the 

 results when two different albino species are 

 united ; sometimes albinos are produced, at 

 other times the normal coloured forms, and, 

 occasionally, flowers possessing an excess of 

 colour. In the Cypripedium genus we have 

 instances of two albino species producing an 

 albino hybrid ; in Cattleyas there are similar 

 results ; and, recently, Dendrobium has been 

 added to the list. Mr. F. C. Puddle, Scamp- 

 ston Hall Gardens, Rillington, York, has 

 flowered two pure white h}'brids between 

 Dendrobium nobile virginale cUid D. Findlay- 

 anum album. By the appearance of the buds on 

 the other plants raised from this seed pod the 

 remainder are also pure albinos. The name 

 ci this hybrid is Dendrobium Cybele album. 



