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species of their section known to cultivation for twenty years 

 following their introduction. The variety Chantinii originated from 

 two sources ; its first recorded appearance was amongst a number 

 of imported plants acquired from us by M. Chantin, a nurseryman 

 of Paris, who sold it to M. Bertrand, an amateur at Queue-en-Brie. 

 M. Bertrand afterwards parted with it to the Etablissement de La 

 Muette (Le Fleuriste de Paris) in exchange for other plants, and 

 in 1806 it was described by , M. Rafarin, the Director of that 

 establishment, in the Revue horticole, loc. eit. supra. Its second 

 appearance, probably the first time in chronological order of 

 introduction, was amongst a small importation of the species by 

 Messrs. Henderson and Son in 1855, but it was not till 1869 that 

 the propagation was sufficiently advanced to admit of a limited 

 number of plants being distributed, the plants so distributed being 

 sold under the name of G. insigne var. punctatum violaceum* The 

 variety Maulei was imported by Messrs. Maule and Sons, of Bristol, 

 three or four years prior to 1860, in which year it flowered for 

 the first time in their Stapleton Road Nurseries. The two varieties, 

 as we nave above described and compared them, are seminal; 

 they are quite distinct and not likely to be confounded with each 

 other, but there are also in cultivation forms so well - nigh 

 intermediate between them that it is indeed hard to say to which 

 of the two varieties they should be referred. The variety Sanderce is 

 one of the most distinct and beautiful of the insigne forms yet seen j 

 so far as at present known it is represented by a single plant which 

 has been acquired by Baron Schroeder, of The Dell, Staines. The 

 sub -varieties, which differ in colour only from the type, are in some 

 cases evidently due to the influence of cultivation, and may continue 

 to appear indefinitely in a species so generally cultivated as C. 

 insigne; others are probably seminal or introduced forms. Of those 

 that have received names for garden use, aureum, albo-marginatum, 

 Cambridge Lodge, and Mr. Tautz's are the most distinct and attractive 

 we have yet seen. 



Cultural Note. — Oypripedium insigne is one of the most useful horti- 

 cultural plants ever introduced, and at the same time one of the easiest 

 to cultivate. " In a window, or in a well-lighted sitting-room it is 

 perfectly at home, and with proper attention as to watering and sprinkling 



* F. W. Burbidge, in Tbe Garden, XXI. (1882), p. 444. 



