ORCHID WORLD. 
JANUARY, 1913. 
NOTES. 
St. Petersburg Exhibition. — On 
account of the Ghent Show, which takes 
place next April, the International Exhibition 
arranged to be held at St. Petersburg in 
April, 1913, has been postponed until 191 4. 
ft^ 
Autumn Orchid Show. — Orchidists will 
be glad to know that the Council of the 
Royal Horticultural Society has decided to 
make this show an annual event. Pre- 
liminary plans of an even better and more 
artistic style of stage arrangement have 
already been discussed by prominent officials. 
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Irregular Cypripedium. — An inter- 
esting case of irregular peloria has recently 
appeared in the collection of Edward Roberts, 
Esq., Park Lodge, Eltham. The specimen, 
Cypripedium conco-callosum, has the two 
lateral petals transformed into labellums 
similar in shape and colour to that usually 
assumed by the median petal, thus closely 
resembling the homologous and well-known 
Cyp. insigne Oddity. The term peloria is 
applied to cases in which the flower becomes 
regular by the labellum assuming the shape 
of the petals, as in Cyp. caudatum Lindenii 
(Uropedium Lindenii), but when the flower 
becomes regular by the increase of the 
irregular portions, as in three-lipped speci- 
mens, the term irregular peloria is used. 
Orchid Sport. — An interesting event has 
occurred in the Orchid houses of Mrs. William 
S. Kimball, of Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. The 
particulars, which have been sent to Sir 
Harry J. Veitch by Mr. Colin B. Ogston, are 
as follows : — The Baby Sport, as we call it, 
appeared from the root of a Cypripedium 
Harrisianum, a very large and dark flowered 
variety. The babe is a perfect miniature 
plant, very compact, and a most remarkable 
grower. The colour is greenish-yellow over- 
laid by very light brown. Considering the 
smallness of the plant, the flower is large, 
very flat, and never looks thin. The plant is 
now two years old, has nine growths, and 
three fully expanded flowers. 
Odontoglossum Bronze Dragon. — 
From the well-known collection of Richard 
Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester, 
comes a flower of the very remarkable and 
beautiful Od. Bronze Dragon, which received 
a First-class Certificate when exhibited by 
J. J. Holden, Esq., of Southport, at the 
Manchester Orchid Society, November 30th, 
igi I. Nearly four inches in width, this noble 
example of the hybridist's art is almost 
covered with rich rose-purple colour, the 
uncovered portions being the tips of the 
sepals and petals, as often seen in Harryanum 
crosses, and the broad apex of the labellum 
which is pure white. 
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