Messrs. F. Sander & Co. have also added to our stock of this species ; and we 

 learn from them that "it grows on almost perpendicular rocks, from which the 

 plants are loosened with sticks, and so let down, during the months of May 

 and September. The water runs over these rocks — not in streams, of course, but 

 sufficient water hangs round the plants to keep the soU and moss w^hich is about 

 them as wet as water itself During the winter months this Cypripedium should 

 not be grown hot." 



Cypripedium Spicenanum is a dwarf evergreen plant, with light glossy green 

 foliage, six inches or upwards in length, and throws up its flowers on purplish 

 downy stalks, some eight or ten inches above the foliage. The flowers are very 

 peculiar, from the singular twisting of the dorsal sepal, which is white, or in some 

 varieties suffused with rose, green at the very base, and having a broad purplish 

 stripe along the centre ; the petals, which are prettily waved especially along the 

 upper edge, are green, with a central stripe and numerous dots of purple ; and 

 the lip is large, and of a brownish-green. The staminode in this species is very 

 brilliant and conspicuous, being of a beautiful mauve-purple, with a w^hite border. 

 Tlie plants bloom during September and October; and when a number of them can 

 l)e obtained, and their growth regulated, they may be kept flowering for a much 

 longer time, as each individual blossom lasts several weeks in beauty. 



Tliis interesting novelty requires the same treatment as C. Stonei, that is, to 

 be potted in rough fibrous peat, intermixed with some charcoal and sphagnum moss ; 

 good drainage must also be afl*orded, as the roots must be kept moist during the 

 growing season ; in fact, they should never be allowed to get dry, as it has no 

 thick fleshy bulbs or stems to support it. We find it do well in a warm house 

 with other Cypripeds. Pot culture is the m.ost suitable for it, but it wdll succeed 

 in baskets suspended from the roof, if shaded from the sun. 



ODOXTOGLossuii Alexande.^.— We have received a splendid variety of this 

 popular Orchid from J. S. Beckett, Esq., of The HaU, Stamford Hill. The in- 

 florescence was very distinct, and consisted of flowers of good form and substance, 

 with the margins beautifully serrated. The sepals and petals were white flushed 

 with rose, the sepals being in addition spotted with reddish browTi, and the white 

 lip was also spotted with brown. The flow^ers w^ere, nioreover, nicely regulated on 

 the spike, so that the entire inflorescence had a particularly good appearance, 



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