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least matter—coupled with the fact of the plants being 
unique or rare, being sufficient to cause Cypripedium fanciers 
to pay £50, £100, and even £300 for them. To anyone 
unacquainted with the Orchid market, this will appear in- 
credulous. All hybrid Cypripediums do not fetch such 
fabulous prices; it is, however, certain that immense sums 
have been obtained for these plants in recent years. 
In the following selection, we have included only those 
which can be recommended as good garden plants. Many 
of them are very expensive at present, but as they are, 
as a rule, easily and rapidly increased by division, they will, 
in a few years, be much more moderate in price. Following 
each are the names of the parents from which the hybrid 
was obtained. As hybrids are usually a combination of the 
characters of their parents, they do not require such minute 
description as the species. 
C. albo-purpureum (from C. Schlimii and C. Dominianum). 
—A handsome, free-growing plant, with long, upright, reed- 
like foliage, and tall flower-spikes. Flowers as in C. Sedeni, 
but larger; dorsal and under sepals ivory-white, tinted with 
pink, .with yellowish veins; petals 5in. long, drooping, 
twisted, pink-coloured ; pouch dull crimson, the edge white, 
spotted with rose. An easily-managed plant, and one 
which is in flower several months in the year. Raised by 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons. First flowered in 1877. 
Garden, Xxi., p. 332. 
C. Arthurianum (from C. insigne and C. Fairieanum).— 
A small plant, with the appearance of C. insigne. Flowers 
smaller; dorsal sepal pale green, white on the apical part, 
veined and spotted with crimson-purple; petals curved 
downwards, with fringed and wavy margins, green, with 
crimson veins; pouch greenish yellow, mottled and veined 
