ii4e orchid world. 



"[September, iyi2. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



Brasso-L.-elia Mad. G. Putzys. — At the 

 horticultural raeeting held at Brussels, July 

 1 6th, 191 2, this new hybrid was exhibited by 

 M. G. Putzys. The parentage is Brassavola 

 Digbyana x Laelia praestans. 



OncidiODA CINNABARINA. — This interest- 

 ing hybrid between Oncidium monachicum 

 metallicum and Cochlioda Noezliana has been 

 recently flowered by Messrs. Charlesworth 

 and Co. The tall, somewhat erect, spike 

 carries many reddish-brown flowers. 



Odontioda Madeline. — A beautiful 

 hybrid, the result of crossing Odontioda 

 Charlesworthii with Odontoglossum crispum. 

 Flowers of good size and shape and of a deep 

 red colour slightly tinted with a golden hue. 

 Raised and flowered by Messrs. Charleswoith 

 and Co. The specimen exhibited by them at 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, July 30th, 

 igi2, has since passed into Mr. E H. David- 

 son's collection, Borlases, Twyford, Berks. 



Cattleya Source d'Or. — This, the result 

 of crossing Forbcsii with Pittiana, has amber- 

 brown sepals and petals, the latter slightly 

 undulated at the margin, and a purple veined 

 lip with an orange-yellow disc. The Forbesii 

 parent largely predominates. Shown by Mr. 

 H. T. Pitt, Royal Horticultural Society, July 

 30th, igi2. 



L.elio-Cattleya Mauretania.— Messrs. 

 Sander and Sons have raised this new hybrid 

 by crossing L.-C. Martinetti with L.-C. Can- 

 hamiana. The large flower is of a rosy purple 

 colour, the broad petals are formed in a 

 much more erect style than often seen m 

 Canhamiana, and the labellum is well 

 developed. 



Brasso-Cattleya Thetis. — Brassavola 

 Digbyana and Cattleya Aclandiae are the two 

 parents of this rare hybrid recently flowered 

 by Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 

 The result is a fairly large greenish-yellow 

 flower with a broad fringed labellum tinged 

 with rose on the front lobe. The purple 

 spotting of C. Aclandi^ has been almost 

 eliminated, a not uncommon occurrence with 

 hybrids of this species. 



Cattleya nouii^is. — The result of crossing 

 Cattleya granulosa with Cattle) a Warneri has 

 produced a large flower, the distinctive feature 

 being the dark marginal band of colour which 

 runs completely round every segment. The 

 well developed labellum is rich purple m 

 colour, and the isthmus is much elongated. 

 Raised by Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. 

 Albans, and exhibited by them at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, August 27th, 191 2. 



L.elio-Cattleya Argus. — This, the re- 

 sult of crossing Cattleya mtiicata with Laelio- 

 Cattleya Ingramii, has been raised m the 

 Rosslyn collection by Mr. Thurgood. The 

 flowers, as may be expected ftom such a 

 mixed parentage, vary much m form and 

 colour, no two being alike. The parental 

 species include C. intermedia, C. aurea, C. 

 Leopoldii, and L. Dayana. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM ETHELRFDA. 

 (Edwardii x triumphans.) 



This, like all Edwardii primary hybrids, 

 has the usual characteristics of deep purple 

 segments tipped by a lighter shade of 

 almost lilac ; the sepals and petals being 

 almost equal. The hp is somewhai: different 

 to others in its class, showing a certain 

 amount of recurving at the sides and a some- 

 what "varnished" appearance m th^ brownish 

 purple of its base. 



I first showed it at the Ro)'al Horticultural 

 Society, July 30th, 191 2, this being the first 

 appearance of the hybrid at a Show, and 

 duly recorded before the Orchid Committee. 



In the Orchid Rcviciv, p. 238, of this month, 

 August, which did not appear till after Od. 

 Ethelreda had " made her bow to the public," 

 Mr. Harrison speaks of Od. Harrisonii of this 

 parentage, and in correspondence states he 

 bloomed the plant last winter but nexer 

 published it. 



His name being only m private personal 

 knowledge to himself, therefore, does not 

 rank as the prior one, and perforce is subse- 

 quent owing to an inadvertence on his part 

 to publish it at once. 



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