78 A LIST OF TROPICAL ORCHIDIA. 



lost through intense frost, for it is certain that the single white is 

 more tender than the other varieties, and it is generally acknow- 

 ledged that double white varieties are more tender than double 

 flowers of any other colour. 



The Hepatica being a great favourite of mine, I have cultivated 

 it with much pleasure, and have sought with some assiduity for the 

 varieties mentioned by Parkinson, as also for the double-white 

 aureum, or single yellow, and the single white with red threads, 

 or " red anthered white," but 1 have never been able to meet with 

 more than the five mentioned by Miller. I would just ask, in 

 conclusion, if there are more than the above five varieties in cul- 

 tivation — and if so, where they are to be obtained ? Has any 

 Florid taken this plant in hand, and been successful in raising 

 varieties ? Snowdrop. 



ARTICLE H. — A List of the most Beautiful Tropical 

 Orchidem in Cultivation. By Cives IN HARE. 



In compliance with the wish of " A Yokkshireman," ex- 

 pressed in the Floricullnral Cabinet for the present month, I send 

 a list of the most beautiful Tropical Orchidese, as yet introduced 

 into this country. 



As there are already above three hundred of this family in our 

 stoves, nearly the whole of which are interesting, either for their 

 singularity or their beauty, it will readily be conceived that many 

 most desirable species are not comprehended in the list which I 

 have compiled ; as your Correspondent, however, is limited for 

 space, he will, of course, be anxious to grow only the very 

 choicest, and these I have carefully enumerated. The major part 

 of them may be procured at the Nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, 

 who have by far the largest collection in the trade ; the best pri- 

 vate collections are those of Earl Fitzwilliam and Mr. Bateman. 



LIST No. I. 

 The following may be obtained easily from any private Collection ; 

 or for about half-a-guiuca each on an average, from the Lon- 

 don Nurseries : — 



Brassia maculata Cymbidium aloifolium 



Cattleya Forbesii Cypripedium insigne 



Catasetum tridentatum venustum 



Cymbidium sineribe Dendrobium Pierardia 



