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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
[February, 1913. 
iabellum. A few of these yellow flowering 
hybrids produce a most pleasmg effect when 
arranged in a group of large mauve and 
purple tinted flowers. 
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Parthenogenesis in Zygopetalum 
INIackayi. — The well-known fact that Zygo- 
petalum Mackayi when pollinated with 
Odontoglossum crispum produces seedlings 
which appear to be m every way identical 
with the Zygopetalum parent has long been 
known. Mr. J. S. Moss, of Bishop's Waltham, 
acquired one of these plants and again 
pollinated it with Od. crispum ; the seedlings 
flowered in due course, and were precisely 
similar to the mother parent. Not content 
with this second conclusive result Mr. Moss 
again set to work and raised a third genera- 
tion, the flowers of which also showed no 
other evidence than that of Zygopetalum 
Mackayi. Still one more attempt has been 
made to produce a hybrid between these two 
species, Mr. Moss informing us that he has 
now seedlings of the fourth generation. It is 
worthy of note that all the above plants are 
really the species known botanically as Z. 
intermedium, which often does duty in 
gardens for the rare and smaller flowering 
true Z. Mackayi, easily distinguished by its 
lip being entirely without hairs. It seems 
quite apparent that no actual hybridisation 
takes place, the application of the crispum 
pollen in some way stimulates the ovules into 
growth, and nothing but the Zygopetalum, 
pure and simple, is produced. 
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Odontoglossu.ai Eva. — Flowers of this 
pretty hybrid between cirrhosum and Kegel- 
jani come from the collection of C. J. Lucas, 
Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham. The ground 
colour is golden-yellow, and the segments are 
handsomely marked with chocolate. The 
spike carried 28 flowers. 
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Mr. G. TAnson. — The employes of Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Co. have presented Mr. 
lAnson with an oak cabinet on the occasion 
of his leaving the firm. Mr. TAnson has 
made Orchids a life-long study, and he will 
be pleased to hear from anyone requiring his 
services as grower in either private or trade 
collections. 
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Ghent Exhibition, 1913. — The following 
English Orchidists have been selected to act 
as members of the Jury at this important 
quinquennial exhibition: — Sir Jeremiah Col- 
man, Bart., Sir Harry Veitch, Sir Fred. Moore, 
H. G. Alexander, C. H. Curtis, de Barn 
Crawshay, Stuart Low, J. O'Brien, H. T. 
Pitt, F. Sander, and Gurney Wilson. — La 
Tribune Horticolc. 
L/ELIA GOULDIANA. 
A few days prior to Christmas Day, 1887, 
I walked into the nursery of Messrs. Siebrecht 
and Wadley, in New York, accompanied by 
Fostermann, one of the most successful of the 
Sanderian Orchid collectors, but who, at that 
time, was manager for Messrs. Sander's 
branch establishment at New York. Foster- 
mann had previously told me that Messrs. 
Siebrecht and Wadley had in flower a Lselia 
which had been seen by both British and 
American Orchidists, none of whom could 
determine whether it was, or not, a variety 
of Laslia autumnalis. 
When Mr. Siebrecht ushered me into a long 
greenhouse containing hundreds of spikes of 
this L^lia laden with the most brilliant 
crimson-purple flowers I was, to say the least, 
greatly astonished. I saw at once that this 
was our new Laelia, for one cannot easily 
mistake the plant of L. Gouldiana ; it is dis- 
tinct from all others, and quite dissimilar to 
L. autumnalis in its round, elongated, erect 
pseudo-bulbs, and the stiff, tapering channelled 
leaves. 
I was at once convinced of the identity of 
the plant with our own, the result being that 
I purchased Messrs. Siebrecht and Wadley's 
stock. I am perfectly sure this is a distinct 
species, very local. My first sight of this 
beautiful Lselia in flower was one never to be 
forgotten, the great number of flowers, so rich 
in colour, and produced in mid-winter, made a 
lasting impression upon me. 
Joseph Godseff 
