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#684 C» CLOTHO X C, EMPRESS FREDERICK X C. MICHAEL SANDER = Pollinated 7/2/50 
The unnamed hybrid bearing the pod was one of two 9<inch, clear medium lavender 
blooms with solid, crimson-purple lips; lots of golden yellow in throat; fine, 
bold form; heavy texture. The pollen parent was one of three 6$=inch well formed, 
vividly dark blooms with glowing, velvety crimson lip, broad and very ruffled. 
Touch of gold deep in throat. June. 
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#685 C. SARA COHEN X Ce ELIZABETH MOSSMAN - Pollinated 8/22/50 - The Sara Cohen 
was one of two lemon yellow 6=inch blooms with dark purple lip, almost plum col- 
ored, with Dowiana, aurea gold veins fanning out from throat to lip. Good form 
and texture. This Elizabeth Mossman has flecks of rose in the tips of cream 
petals, Autum, 
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#686 C. SARA COHEN X Ce IRIS = Pollinated 8/23/50 = This particular Sara Cohen 
was an unusually dusky yellow, almost bronze, with network of mauve veins in 
petals. Dark red, Dowiana aurea type lip. The Iris was a very heavy textured, 
compact bloom, shaped like C. bicolor but larger; sepals and petals yellow- 
chartreuse, with fine rose=pink veins in the petals. Isthmus type lir was bril- 
liant cerise, a most striking contrast, A corsage of these two 6<inch blooms 
created quite a sensation at a local Orchid Meeting. Expect some mest interest- 
ing and unusual yellows from this cross. Autumn. 
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#687 C. IRIS (C. bicolor x Ce Dowiana, aurea) - Pollinated 10/5/50 = Mrs. Ryer- 
son was so intrigued by the C. Iris described above that she said: “Let's make 
the cross on my favorite bicolor, the olive green one with flecks of orange- 
brown." So I let her. The Dowiana aurea was one of the best of that handsome 
yellow species: clear golden yellow sepals and petals; dark, velvety, rec=-purple 
lip, broad ane rufflede Gold and maroon veins spreading out from throat to lip. 
Late Autum. 
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#688 (©. RAPHAELLAUREA X C, MICHAEL SANDER - Pollinated 8/1/50 = The pod parent 
was an unusually dark, solidly colored, almost plum purple bloom, with lip only 
slightly darker than the sepals and petals; bold form and heavy texture. Michael 
Sander described above under #684. This June pollen, used on Autumn blooming 
plant, should help increase Michael Sander's tendency to bloom twice yearly. 
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#689 C. ORATANI ALBA X C. ELEANORE ALBA X BC QUEEN ALEXANDER = Pollinated 9/21/50 
The pollen of the showy, big Pure White brasso was used on an outstanding White~ 
Colored-Lip bloom, the lip very dark, Royal purple, topped by pale yullow eyes, 
I expect some extra fine White=-Colored=Lip Bee hybrids from this cross. The 
brasso blooms faithfully twice a yeare Pollen was from Winter bloom of the hy- 
brid. 
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