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flowers look like the buds of W. 

 A. Richardson, as the color fades 

 at the edges of the petals, and 

 gives that soft gradation of tint 

 which all admire in the Richard- 

 son Rose. These fairy Roses are 

 favorites with the florists already, 

 as they work up so nicely as but-' 

 ton-hole bouquets. TheCheshunt 

 Pauls have shown a pretty new 

 miniature Rose, called Red Pet, 

 which is really a pigmy China 

 Rose. The color is bright crim- 

 son, and though the blooms are 

 not up to the florist's ideal, they 

 are very telling on account of 

 their color and profusion. 



London, June 30lh. W. Goldrin<'. 



New or Little Known 

 Plants. 



C3'pripedium Calif ornicum.* 



T^HIS species of Lady's-SIipper, 

 •'■ from the Pacific coast, is notable 

 for its large leafy bracts and for the 

 number of its flowers. The steni is 

 sometimes two feet high, with nu- 

 merous leaves, which continue to 

 the top, with little reduction in size, 

 the upper bearing in their a.xils a 

 single, nearly sessile flower. The 

 sepals and petals are greenish yel- 

 low, short, and nearly equal' in 

 length, the two lower sepals united 

 into one, and about half an inch 

 long. The saccate lip is but little 

 longer, and is white or tinged and 

 spotted with pink. The species is 

 common in tlie mountains of north- 

 ern California, growing in the open 

 woods in damp soil or swamps. 



S. W. 



Plant Notes. 



Two Rare Orchids. 



/^RCHID lovers have been inter- 

 ^-^ ested of late in the simultane- 

 ous blooming of two rare plants in . 

 the possession of Messrs. Siebrecht 

 & Wadley, at New Rochelle. The 

 one, Zygopetalum Sedcni, formerly 

 belonged to the Morgan collection ; 

 the other, a white variety of Caitleya 

 Gigas, is certainly unique, since it is 

 the only specimen known to exist. 

 It came with a lot from Siebrecht 

 & Wadley's collector in Colombia, 

 who reported that there was a new 

 species among them, but the mark 

 for identification was lost in transit, 

 and the plant was not known until 

 it flowered last season. This year 

 it is much increased in strength and 

 size, and now bears four sp'ikes of 

 bloom. 



The flowers are held boldly erect; 

 the petals and sepals stand out, and 

 are pearly white. The lip is large, 

 crinkled into a little frill around the 



edge ; it has a slight mauve tinge, like a delicate reflection. 

 The throat is pale yellow, while oh each side is the yellow eye- 

 like spot which characterizes C. Gigas. There are four or five 



*C. Californicum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vii. 389; Bot. Calit., ii. 138. Pubes- 

 cent, leafy ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, the upper nairowei- and acuminate ; 

 Howers three to SIX, on short pedicels in the upper axils; sepals greenish white 

 broad, acute. one-lial£ inch long, the lower united to the apex, about enualiuK tlie 

 narrower petals ; lips slightly longer, oblong-obovate, white or pinkish, pubescent 

 within at base ; capsule retlexed. 



Fig. 45. — Cypripedium Californicum. 



flowers on each peduncle, large and showy. C. Gigas is 

 generally regarded as the finest Catt/cya known, and this 

 new variety certainly deserves high rank among those with 

 dale-colored flowers. It is probably the most striking novelty 

 in Orchids now in the country. 



The rare Zygopetalum Scdeni is an interesting' garden liy- 

 Virid, the result of a cross between Z. Maxillare -Ami Z. Mackayi. 

 It has narrow lanceolate leaves, and strong spikes of singularly 



