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Garden and Forest. 



[July 31, i J 



a decided hit Mr. Seden made. Probably the uUimate fate ot 

 these hybrid CvpripeiUunis is to become Horists' flowers, for 

 any amount of improvement in them seems possible. 



London. CalypSO. 



Cypripedium Rothschildianum. — It is now nearly two years 

 since this handsome Lady's Slipper was first introduced to culti- 

 vation by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., and it is certainly one of the 

 mos.t intei'estins: and remarkable novelties among- Orchids 



the months of February and March last several plants were in 

 fiower here, and remained in good condition over six weeks. 

 Now here are several more blooming, and, if anything, an 

 improvement on those produced earlier in the year. C. Roths- 

 childianum lias sub-erect, leathery leaves, of a uniform deep 

 green color, and are from nine to eighteen inches or more long 

 and two to three inches broad, with a sharp prominent keel on 

 the under surface. The strong scape, which is over a foot 

 long, is of a dull purple, covered with a downy pubescence. 



Fig. 120. — A Specimen plant of Trachelospermum Thunbergii. — See page 369. 



which has been seen of late years. Although this species has 

 been imported in large quantities from various places in the 

 eastern Archipelago, it has not been long enough in cultivation 

 yet for many to know it; but there can be no doubt that, in the 

 course of a few years, a specimen of it will be found in every 

 collection worthy of the name, for it is a species which not 

 only produces remarkably large and handsome flowers, but 

 possesses the additional recommendation of producing them 

 very freely at two or three different times of the year. During 



and generally bearing two or three flowers, the pedicels of 

 which are clasped at the base by large showy bracts of a green- 

 ish-yellow color, handsomely and regularly striped on both 

 the inner and outer surfaces, with dark purple. The ovate, 

 elliptic-acute upper sepal is about two and a half inches long 

 and a little over two inches broad in the widest portion, and 

 fringed on the margins with short purplish hairs. The ground 

 color is more or less of an agreeable pale yellow, longitudin- 

 ally marked with broad blackish-purple stripes of unequal 



