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grows so vigorously as Maudia. The cultural method here employed. is of 
interest, for the plants are grown in Sphagnum moss only,: fresh supplies 
being periodically placed on the top and ‘pressed down as the lower portion 
decays. One is apt to think that with this method of potting the plants 
F.C.C., RH.S., MARCH 27TH, 1917. 
CYPRIPEDIUM EURYBIADES VAR, THE BARON, 
would become too sappy to produce satisfactory flowers, but such is by no 
means the case, twenty and more _fine developed flowers are of frequent 
occurrence on each of these specimens. Cypripedium insigne Is represented 
by the two best varieties, the giant one known as Harefield Hall, and the 
