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NOTES ON TULIPS. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
of the finest of the many species of Odontoglossum introduced of late 
years to our gardens from Ocana, in New Grenada, and which was at one 
time confounded with 0. Hallii. It is of epiphytal habit, furnished with 
elongate flattened pseudobulbs, lioaring a pair of slightly-keeled lanceolate- 
ligulate leaves, which narrow gradually to an elongated point; it produces 
pendent racemes of showy flowers, which are large, of a brilliant yellow, and 
richly blotched with chestnut brown over the greater portion of the sepals and 
petals, the top only of which is clear yellow. Our plate represents, at fig. 1, a form 
or variety in which the lip is yellow at the base, and blotched near the tip with a 
large chestnut-coloured spot. The fig. 2 representsthe variety a white- 
lipped form which also has an intense apical blotch. This was flowering finely in the 
collection of Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, during the past summer, when the accom¬ 
panying sketch was made by Mr. Fitch. Eeichenbach describes it as a splendid 
thing, the pure golden yellow of its flowers being relieved by the dark cinnamon- 
brown blotches; and he also* notices the yellow-lipped and white-lipped forms. 
The plant is allied to 0. Hallii^ but differs in its oblong-ligulate acute, not 
acuminate sepals and petals, in the panduriform acute or emarginate, not acumi¬ 
nate lip, and in certain differences in the crests developed at the base of the 
latter organ. As our figure shows, it is a most desirable and ornamental species for 
general cultivation, and one of those requiring what is called cool treatment, as 
explained at p. 152.—T. Moore. 
NOTES ON TULIPS. 
With Brief Descriptive List of the Best Varieties. 
jN my former paper (p. 193), I used certain terms,such as “rectified,” “breaks,’^ 
“ strains,” &;c., which are well understood by all Tulip-growers, but as they 
are not so well known by the general public, a few words of explanation 
^ here will not be out of place. 
When a Tulip blooms for the first time from seed, it almost invariably blooms 
in the “Breeder” state, Z.e., the flower is a self-coloured one, with a white or a 
yellow base. Bizarres have a yellow base, and the body of the flower varies from 
light brown to heavy chocolate in colour. Bybloemens have a white ground, and 
the body-colour is of various shades of purple, from pale lavender to very dark 
blackish-purple ; and Eoses have also a white ground, but the body-colour is of 
various shades of red, from a pale rosy tint to the deepest red. A bed of Breeder- 
Tulips is a most interesting sight, for although there may be in it hundreds of 
varieties, yet no two are alike, and they can be well distinguished by the initiated. 
The qualities necessary to make a fine “ Breeder ” flower are form, and purity of 
the base and stamens ; the colour of the flower is of no consequence, all shades, 
light, medium, or dark, being equally esteemed. 
3rd series.—X. 
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