October, 1912.] 
THE ORCHID WORLD. 
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at the Royal Horticultural Society, August 
27th, igi2. It is a very grand albino hybrid. 
We have, therefore, two albino species pro- 
ducing an albino hybrid which has again been 
crossed with both its parents, making, in all, 
three elegant albino hybrids. 
AMONG THE ORCHIDS. 
A Chelsea Memory. 
By INEZ DICKINSON CUTTER. 
WHAT a wonder world it was, that 
World of Orchids ! There were 
slender green trumpets to herald 
the gatherings of woodland presences. There 
were orchid drinking horns with wine-red 
edges ; curious Indian vessels at once young 
and hoary, brilliant and sad ; and dark orchid 
cups filled with opiate dreams. 
There was Nature's first thought of a 
butterfly and her latest ideal, gorgeous and 
velvet-winged. There were soft nests pillow- 
ing grey-green eggs from one of which a 
yellow bird-orchid had just emerged. There 
were strange orchid creatures, spotted and 
striped, crouching in green lairs, purposeful 
and sinister. 
There were mischievous orchid fairies, violet 
clad, dancing with rhythmic arms outspread, 
in a hidden dell, and through deep shades 
one caught glimpses of the fair faces and 
green garments of a group of orchid nymphs, 
pressing close together, breathless, as if 
startled by some human sound. 
There were tiny infant faces in frilled caps, 
and near them quaint, old-lady orchids, wise 
and somewhat gloomy, their long bonnet 
strings untied. There were maiden orchids 
gazing at life in a white wonder that was not 
yet questioning ; there were pallid bride 
orchids, and brides with a faint rose flush, 
half of shrinking and half of longing. There 
were orchids which offered cool deeps of quiet 
tenderness and blooms of open enticement, of 
passionate, intoxicating fulness. There were 
orchid lasses on a country holiday dressed in 
homely, patterned fabrics, and grand orchid 
ladies in all the richness of velvet and plumes 
and the daintiness of frills and fringes 
There was a troupe of palest pink blooms 
advancing softly, breathing harmonies. These 
were united by sympathy, yet were separate 
as souls. There were solitary blossoms of 
profound whiteness, orchid mystics, whispering 
of the deeper knowing. 
There were small yellow orchids, brilliant 
as light, that had drunk the spirit of the sun. 
There were sprays of snowy orchids like a 
waterfall's foam, and orchid bushes that fl_amed 
yet were not consumed. 
There were lovely and fantastic orchid 
forms not to be named, delicate fancies, Fra 
Angelicos of wings and colour wrought by 
Nature in gentle mood ; rich marvels that had 
woven into themselves the very mysteries 
of the dark earth ; piercing, mind-like 
blossoms, keen as golden rays, that could leave 
no fine secret of Nature's unpenetrated ; 
and here and there velvety eyes peered and 
questioned. 
What was there not in that orchid world, — 
insect and bird and beast, wood sprite and 
maid and matron, sensualist and soul that 
aspired ! Symbols were they, the orchids, of 
the world we know. 
NEW HYBRIDS. 
L.-ELIO-CaTTLEYA RUniGINOSA. — C. Schil- 
leriana x L. Boothiana has produced this 
hybrid in the Rosslyn collection from whence it 
was exhibited by Mr. H. T. Pitt at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, September lOth, 191 2. 
Although the specific name indicates " rusty " 
the colour of the sepals and petals is a shining 
crimson-purple. The broad and open labellum 
is of a rosy lilac-purple, with darker veining 
of the same colour. 
L.-ELIO-CaTTLEYA VENUSTA. — This uncom- 
monly coloured hybrid between L.-C. Schil- 
leriana and L.-C. Aphrodite has been raised 
and flowered by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 
The plant carried a spike of five flowers, 
almost white, but with the larger part of the 
sepals and petals handsomely marked with 
distinct rose-purple blotches. The labellum is 
bordered and blotched with the same colour. 
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