March 7, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Plants Recently Certificated 
By the Royal Horticultural Society. 
February 24th. 
ORCHID COMMITTEE. 
Odontoglossum crispum Grace Ruby, 
T] ie flowers of this variety are of large size and circular in out- 
line ow in" to the great breadth of the sepals and petals which 
overlap one another to a great extent. The ground colour is 
white and except at the apex of tire segments all the parts are 
beautifully blotched with brownish-purple. The markings are 
■moderate in size, but so numerous and regularly distributed over 
the flowers as to give them a very handsome appearance. The 
,nM 0. c. guttatum had very narrow segments, and was there¬ 
fore very inferior to the handsome form under notice. (First 
Cl ass Certificate.) Messrs. .Jas. and A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, 
Sussex. See illustration of this magnificent new variety.* 
Phaius Clive. 
The parentage of this hybrid was-P- tuberculosus x Norman. 
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the large orbicular blackish-maroon blotch, on the disc of the 
lip, the rest being creamy-white with a purple tip. (Award of 
Merit.) Mrs. Haywood. 
Dendrobium splendidissimum Mrs. Haywood. 
The flowers of this splendid hybrid are of huge size, the sepals 
and petals being rosy-purple with darker tips. The lip is parti- 
culardy fine, with an orbicular crimson, blotch covering the 
greater part of it, surrounded by a narrow white band, and 
tipped with purple. (Award of Merit.) Mrs. Haywood. 
Dendrobium Ophir. 
Here again we have a hybrid of which the parents were 
I), signatum x aureum. The flowers are of large size, with long 
soft yellow sepals and jietals. The lip is of a deeper yellow 
with some brown markings towards the base. (Award of Merit.) 
Captain Holford, C.I.E., Westonbirt. Tetbury, Gloucester. 
Dendrobium wiganianum album. 
The flowers of this hybrid are white, with a pale creamy blotch 
on the lip and two purple spots at the base of the last named 
organ. The parentage of the variety was It. nobile x Hilde- 
Cyclamen „ IBERICUM. (See p/206.) 
The flowers are of the usual size for this class, and have the 
sepals an 1 petals of two distinct shades of colour, the back or 
outer face being pale yellow, and the inner face shaded uni¬ 
formly with light brown or fawn. The apical portion of the lip 
is spotted with purple on a pale rosy-lilac ground ; the side 
lobes are of a copper hue, densely spotted with chocolate, with a 
median orange ridge passing into yellow on the lower half. 
(Award of Merit.) Norman C, Cookson, Esq. (gardener, Mr. 
H. J. Chapman), Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne. 
Dendrobium Salteri. 
The parentage of this hybrid was D. splendidissimum grandi- 
florum x findlavanum. The sepals and petals are purple, while 
the lip is white with a crimson-brown, rayed blotch on the disc 
and purple at the tip. (Award of Merit.) Mrs. Haywood 
(gardener, Mr. C. J. .Salter), Woodhatch Lodge, Reigate. 
Dendrobium Sunray melanodiscum. 
The parentage in this case was P. findlayanum x Ainsworthu 
Woodhatch var. The large flowers are creamy white with 
purple tips to the segment s. The finest feature of the no\vei is 
* See p. 207. 
brandii, but usually the resultant seedlings have more decidedly 
yellow flowers, slightly tinted with rosy-purple. (Award of 
Merit.) It. G. Thwaites, Esq. (gardener, Mr. J. M. Black), 
Chessington, Christchurch. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
is p 2 rsica x 5. p. purpurea. 
A very distinct variety of Iris was exhibited under a name 
hich consisted of a combination between the names persica and 
irnurea but the committee demurred to the use of such a 
irbarous appellation for a garden plant. Nevertheless, an 
ward of Merit was accorded the plant, subject to the name 
sing changed to something more appropriate. It might prac- 
cally be) described as a purple form of I. persica ; but there 
as a variety under the name of I. p. purpurea some years ago, 
id that was very inferior to the new one under notice. 1 ie 
Us have a black blotch at the apex, with an orange rulge along 
ie centre, and tinted with copper on the flanges of the claw. 
11 the rest of the flower is of a decided and deep purple hue. 
/ward of Merit.) Miss Willmott, Warley Place, Great M arley. 
