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. Dauthieri; when it expanded its flowers it proved to be an entirely new hybrid, for which he afterwards obtained 
o hundred pounds sterling. It has been named C. Van Houtteanum and is no doubt a cross between C. niveum and 
Dauthieri. For natural variations from typical species high prices have also been obtained, such as for John Day's 
mo Stonei platyteenium, C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, C. Argus Moensi, and C. insigne Sanderee. Some orchid amateurs 
are are beginning to feel nervous at the continual influx of new seedling Cypripediums, but when it is remembered how 
_ enormously the demand for this extraordinary genus has increased, it will be seen there is but little cause for fear. 
As Cypripedium Tautzianum is the result of a cross between two such heat-loving parents it should be cultivated in 
the warmest house. We would also advise that a large proportion of loam should be used in the cultivation of this 
hybrid, as C. niveum, one of its parents, succeeds best when grown in a compost of loam and old lime.rubble. The 
_ treatment, however, accorded to Cypripeds from the Bornean and Philippine Islands and New Guinea, so far as regards 
heat and moisture, will be found most suitable for it. 
Drawn from a plant in the collection of i G. Tautz, Esq., Goldhawk Road, London, W. 
