commend this matter to the attention of all those entering upon this now very 
fashionable pursuit, viz., the selection of the best varieties for the parents of their 
seedlings. 
The variety of Cypripedium Pitcherianum, here figured, is a bold and robust 
grower, having large strap-shaped leaves some twelve inches or more long, and 
some two inches broad, slightly tessellated on the upper surface with deep green 
upon a paler green ground colour. The flowers also are large and handsome, the 
dorsal sepal being very broad and slightly recurved at the sides. The base is 
green, and in the centre is a broad streak of deep chocolate, and from the base 
spring bands of the richest vinous purple, leaving a broad margin of pure white; 
lower sepal much smaller, pale greenish white; petals broadly strap-shaped, 
undulated, fringed with black hairs on the upper margin, reddish brown, with a 
darker central streak; lip large and obtuse, the upper part reddish brown with 
darker veins, pale greenish below, the mouth being bordered with yellow. We 
predict for this plant a great future, as, in addition to its being free flowering, 
it is very pleasing in colour, and produces short spikes. 
We have found this plant not to differ in its requirements from other members 
of the family. We keep them all tolerably warm all the year round, near the 
glass, and with a moist and humid atmosphere, giving them plenty of light, but 
never allowing the rays of the sun to shine upon them during the hottest part 
of the day. The soil should be good peat fibre and chopped sphagnum moss, 
and the drainage must be perfect to maintain the plants in good vigorous health. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE ORCHID CoMMITTEE OF THE RoyAL HorTIcULTURAL Society, 
IN THE First QuARTER oF THE YEAR 1892. 
JaNuaRY 12th. To C. J. Lucas, Esq., First Class Certificate for Lelia 
turfuracea (Lucas’s variety), flowers much larger than the type, and bright rosy 
crimson in colour. 
To G. Douglas, Esq., Dalkeith, N.B., First Class Certificate for Laelia anceps 
Ballantinei, a very fine form, with a rich purple lip. 
To Norman Cookson, Esq., Wylam-on-Tyne, First Class Certificate for Cypri- 
pedium Calypso (Oakwood var.), a very fine hybrid between C. Bocallii atratum 
and C. Spicerianum; dorsal sepal large and broad, greenish white at the base, having 
a dark maroon central streak, from which spring feathery lines of rosy purple; 
petals and lip like a good form of C. Leeanum. 
To Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, First Class Certificate for Lelio- 
Cattleya Cassiope, a cross between Lelia pumila and L. exoniensis; a large rosy 
crimson flower. The same award was made to the firm for Epidendrum Endresii- 
: Wallisir, a cross between #. Wallisii and E. Endresii, and quite intermediate 
between the two species. | . 
ee (Continued under Plate 454.) 
