of this plant was taken from a specimen in our own collection in the Victoria and 
Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway, where with us it blooms very freely every 
year. 
Cypripedium Arthurianum is a distinct and beautiful hybrid. It is a dwarf- 
growing evergreen plant, with foliage some five inches long and an inch broad ; the 
scape is about eight inches high, and single flowered, each blossom measuring about 
five inches across. The flowers have somewhat the general appearance of C. insigne 
Maulei, the dorsal sepal being of a pale yellowish green, veined and spotted with 
blackish crimson ; the petals are also veined with deep crimson, deflexed and recurved, 
which is the peculiar character of C. Fairrieanum, its other parent ; lip veined and 
mottled with brown on a pale greenish yellow ground. It blooms during the autumn 
months, and if the plant is kept in a warm house, where it has been growing, 
its blossoms remain in full beauty for upwards of six weeks. 
This plant thrives well in the temperature of the Cattleya house well exposed 
to the light, and appears to be intermediate in its constitution, one of its parents 
being a cool-house plant, whilst the other requires the heat of the East India 
house, but the offspring thrives best in an intermediate situation. It will grow 
well in either a pot or basket, but we find pot culture the more congenial to its 
wants; it, however, requires careful potting, also judicious selection of the material 
used, and although it does inherit some of the peculiarities of C. Fairrieanum, it 
nevertheless also partakes of some of the vigour of its other parent, C. insigne. 
From experience we find that it requires ample drainage, which should be covered 
with some rough peat fibre, and the soil consist of good fibrous peat, leaf-mould, 
and nodules of charcoal; the plant must be firmly potted, and elevated on a 
cone-like mound above the pot’s rim. This variety requires careful watering, as it 
does not like so great a quantity as some of the members of this genus, but yet 
its roots should never be allowed to become dry, and herein lies one of the 
peculiarities in its cultivation. These Cypripediums, having no_ thick fleshy pseudo- 
bulbs to support them, or to draw upon during a period of drought, require great 
attention as regards the supply of moisture to their roots at all seasons of the 
year. 
