April, 1913.I 
THE ORCHID WORLD. 
149 
regarding M. Candida, one of Cybele's parents. 
" Its fine and richly-mottled blossoms contain 
such a charming combination of lively colours, 
and these are rendered so pleasingly prominent 
by the delicate white of the labellum, that they 
at once arrest and fix the eye of the spectator, 
and occasion the most vivid emotions of 
delight." M. Candida is with us to-day, but 
we regretfully acknowledge that it does not 
now produce the same emotions of delight, nor 
does its charming combination of lively colours 
appeal to us in the way that it did to Paxton. 
In those days of long ago our grandparents 
loved certain Orchids almost equally with their 
children ; they made the acquaintance of the 
plant and admired its beauty in their earl\- 
da\-s of life, and that self-same Orchid passed 
through life almost hand-in-hand with its 
owner. Men of the present age have barely 
time to see but once the beauty of a newly- 
made hybrid. So quickly do these plants 
make their appearance, and so soon are they 
eclipsed by others, that, however bright their 
meteoric career may be, we know them only 
as a dream. A very few remain vivid in our 
memory, the majniity pass to the region of the 
vast unknown. 
NEW HYBRIDS. 
cri.sp\im Lindli-yamim 
Coradinei crispum nobilc crispum 
j (spotted) I I 
I " / I 
crispodinei armamvillierense 
I (Theodora) 
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I 
DIDO 
THE enormously bad influence of a 
grandparent is more shown in this 
hybrid than m most. The great 
power of Lindleyanum is too strong to be 
eliminated m three generations, even when 
allied to such fine varieties as nobile La 
Perfection and crispum augustum (these are 
the parents that M. Ch. Vuylsteke used for 
the production of armainvillierense Theodora). 
VOL. in. 
It has left its marks very plainly in the 
characteristic hard linear form, absence of 
denticulation on the petals, incurved edges of 
sepals towards the tips, and straight jiarallcl 
sided lip. 
In one attribute only has it failed to make 
itself evident, that is, the yellow which has all 
disappeared, at least in this plant, but others 
may prove yellow, of course. 
The ground of the flower is entirely white, 
the sepals having a large light reddish-brown 
blotch, as in Coradinei, and a smaller one 
towards their bases, the petals having a 
larger solid one with a couple of spots below. 
The lip is that of an armainvillierense in 
the markings, but has the hard narrow form of 
a Coradinei, the edges only just serrated. 
The column clearly shows the form of that 
of Lindleyanum, with the cirrhi pointing 
forward as in it ; the back is coloured. 
Though valueless commercially, it does 
prove much to the investigator into the ways 
Nature took in making the hybrids we began 
with. 
de B. Crawshay, March i6th, 1913. 
OdontoglossujM Cleopatra. — In the 
recording of this hybrid on page 140 a slight 
error occurred in the parentage. It should 
be Carmania (Lucasianum x Harryanum) x 
Vuylstekei. 
Odontoglossum ANTHOCRENE. — Messrs. 
Sander and Sons have produced this hybrid 
between elegans and Wilckeanum. The 
petals are twisted, and with the sepals have 
much of the Wilckeanum colour and marking. 
The large labellum has a prominent spiny 
crest. 
Odontocidium Edwardatum. — An 
interesting hybrid between Odontoglossum 
Edwardii and Oncidium serratum has been 
raised by Messrs. McBean, of Cooksbridge. 
The colour is reddish-brown, with bright 
golden-yellow tips to all the segments. The 
lip is narrow, with a prominent golden-yellow 
crest, the erect column tinged with blue. All 
the segments are undulated at their margins, 
thus giving the flower a pretty appearance. 
The ventral sepals are only half the width of 
the dorsal. 
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