62 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
about the Chinese primrose on which it may be 
interesting to make one or two remarks. 
ow that am primroses and their close al- 
Nis there are two forms of flowers, which are 
own to flo S pin-eyed and -e 
flowers. This 
s 
ifferent degrees 
of fertility, о as they are оне ms 
8 
perienced quarter. The flowers аге capable of 
ван with their own sale but in a very 
degree.’ 
. BATEMAN then наї tie x the 
Cyprip iis «хы, exhibited. The word Cypripedium had 
en turned into English Ъ br some postin, classic 
who rendered it Vines? Slipper. He tru eit га 
ever, that Venus was more idy in her 
did not wear her is down at the heels © ‘the 
на ripedia in cultivation were 
rapì 
there were 
y increasing. y за 
Pd ytwoi in thecountry; nowthere 
stinct 
т 
from South America h vied in beauty with 
the very best we now posse mongst other 
ripedia, attention was specially called to a very 
interesting one never exhibited 
very of aris issi 
all other т tropical Cypripedia in the yellow colour 
of its leaves, which аге le below and beauti- 
у mar above. It would shortly e ar 
in the * Botanical . Bat 
gested that it would be а y very. oir iie = vi of 
work for an 
any lady or gentleman to get up a collee- 
as a 
eed 
е hids, yet апу willing 
nter largely upon the cultivation, certain 
could not do better than commence with Cy d 
Mr. Bateman next vare to e e Odontoglots, 
which were MM nted in the b 
tiful specimens, i 
easy of gre e any other 
аге Nu Roe zd 
Orel, quantities from Peru, 
where they are found 
hair and dark silk dresses, retaining their fresh- 
-— long enough to be worn at half-a-dozen balls 
т Soirées 
of the most attractive of the ion 
wild ай showed one а flowers on а 
spike. Another 1 fi 
e, by Mr. 
It "d pet gain ein 
its present condition. А Celo оруп 
bited у Mr. Weir, was stated to peas Sal w 
uty; but under 
give an idea of its pe Bars, Yi тог. 
ed sp 
sis braetescens was likely to be useful 
thi way, as well as the lovely PHI ama- 
bilis. "There was а в 
Duke of Devonshire first saw it at 
lisson's = ooting, he quite fell in love with i it; 
the Messrs. Rollisson ai not wish r 
but His Gros wou e no denial and be 
them a blank eheque, teling them to 
ever sum they please wrote = 100, and 
the prize became the es Th uu: 
importations, we have now only to ay siue iti 
where the Duke paid . Attenti which 
called to а Dendrobium sent by Mr. ауу т 
= а. attention ete was not like the = 
knew, and w vaj puro cies We 
This genus abounded i in odis, and each j^ D. 
received ұғ ul than the 
specios This had been “A 
try without 
twenty | Jum in cultivation in this coun ales 
haying flowered. It was from New South Wi 
atmos fo The 1 
sequently exhacsted by and had = oe 
left to produe Моана 
à Lycaste from а gemmis utiful 
Leptotes from Brazil; a Се vb у Jong 
Oncidium is last has spikes t T above the 
and grows at an — y i. m fee i d the 
level of + w lin Ing = № 
perature as low as that of ап ordi 
house. A Lodi. Dendrobium se 
shown, which, Mr. De Orchid growers vie 
Eres a furore orn: d 
