The Garden Magazine, July, 1924 
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THE GREAT ORCHID EXHIBITION OF BOSTON, MASS., MAY 8 to 11 
On the occasion of the first exhibition of the American Orchid Society Mr. Albert C. Burrage, the President, 
Horticultural Hall with a varied display arranged naturalistically in geographic groups and realistically staged w 
from Florida, and other accessory plants. The oval below 
shows a section of Mr. Burrage’s exhibit of species and hybrids 
are wondrouslv spotted and marked including the specimen Brassolaelio-Cattleya shown on the next 
with chocolate-brown, purple, or yellow. P a f • This display was an epitome of the entire Orchid family 
’ v ^ ^ . and perhaps the most educational single exhibit ever presented 
It has been introduced in vast quantities at a fi ower show 
and no Orchid has been more diligently 
searched for by collectors. It blossoms 
at various seasons of the year but most 
freely from February to April. 
Native of the same country as the 
sister species is 0 . Pescatorei, also a great 
favorite. Likewise 0 . Harryanum whose 
flowers are very different in appearance, 
with the petals curving sharply down¬ 
ward. The sepals and petals are chest¬ 
nut-brown, barred and edged with yel¬ 
low; the lip is white and yellow heavily 
feathered with bluish purple. A very 
showy species is the Guatemalan 0 . 
grande, an old denizen of orchid houses. 
This has gaily colored yellow barred 
with chestnut-brown flowers each from 5 
to 7 inches across with rounded lip, white 
with a few concentric bands of chestnut- 
red. 
Very sweetly scented are the golden- 
yellow blotched with red-brown flowers 
of the Colombian 0 . odoralum. The 
Mexican 0 . Rossii is a pretty and well- 
known species with white and purple 
flowers freely produced during the win¬ 
ter season. 
First cousin of Odontoglossum is 
Cochlioda of the Peruvian Andes of 
which four or five species only are 
known. The best known is perhaps C. 
completely filled the large exhibition room of 
ith Filipino huts in bamboo, Cocoanut Palms 
vulcanica with erect racemes of bright 
rose colored waxy flowers each 2 inches 
across; C. sanguined is similar but has 
drooping racemes. In C. rosea the 
flowers are less brightly colored, but in 
C. Noeiliana they are a wonderful 
orange-scarlet with a violet-purple col¬ 
umn in marked contrast. These Cochlio- 
das crossed with Odontoglossums have 
given rise to the hybrid genus Odontioda 
whose remarkable reddish flowers are 
among the choicest and most highly 
prized products of the orchid breeders’ 
skill. 
Flowers Like Doves and Like 
Helmets 
M ILTON I AS with their relatively 
huge, flat flowers with bilobed lip 
are greatly appreciated wherever Or¬ 
chids are grown. The genus is a small 
one of about a dozen species found from 
Costa Rica south to Brazil. One of the 
very finest is M.vexillaria from Colombia 
with pink flowers of which half a dozen 
or so are borne on a slender raceme; 
there are many forms some with white 
others with deep rose-colored blossoms. 
The Brazilian M. speclabilis has white 
flowers with a finely colored lip, deep 
violet-purple at the base, rosy-crimson 
in the center. Beautiful are the flowers 
of M. Phalaenopsis with their fiddle¬ 
shaped lip, blotched and striped with 
