40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ FEBRUARY, 1914 
eices| WINTER-BLOOMING CYPRIPEDIUMS. Bee! 
BEAUTIFUL series of winter-blooming Cypripediums is sent from 
_, the collection of W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., Hessle, E. Yorks, by. Mr. 
J. T. Barker, who remarks that they have considerably over, 1000 blooms 
open, forming a grand sight, and that they are most valuable for winter 
flowering. An example of the way they are grown may be. seen in the 
annexed. figure (for which we are indebted to the Journal of Horticulture), — 
which represents a plant of C. Leeanum Gratrixiz grown in the collection, 
and; the, series above mentioned includes a splendidly-developed: flower — 
from this plant. The dorsal sepal has an expanse of over three inches, and ~ 
has a light apple-green base and a purple median line, the rest being white. — 
The variety Corona has a twin-flowered scape, with a larger green ‘area — 
and. rows of brown. spots, which become purple as they extend into the — 
white area. The petals are also broader and the dorsal sepal less reflexed. — 
A third variety, called J. T. Barker, is most like the last, but has a smaller — 
green area and fewer spots. C. Leeanum is very variable, and is one of * 
the most popular kinds grown for cut bloom, the lasting quality of the — 
flowers being well known and appreciated. 
The blotched hybrids sent are very handsome, and include C. Euryades — 
the former having the dorsal sepal — 
and the petals very broad and ] 
dark, and the latter having numerous round purple spots on the dorsal — 
splendens and New Hall Hey var., 
almost covered with claret-red marbling, 
sepal, and a well-coloured lip and petals. 
Wellesley are handsomely blotched forms, 
Germaine Opoix is very finely developed. 
beautiful white flowers, copiously dotted on the 
rosy red, the characters of C. niveum and 
effectively combined. 
C. Dowlingianum has two 
C. insigne is represented by fine flowers of Harefield Hall var., Hessle: 
var., having a broad white border to the green dorsal sepal, and rather few 
brown blotches, and var: Sandere, the latter a very fine seedling raised 
true by self-fertilisation. 
the insigne type, C. fulshawense, with very broad well-col 
C. chrysotoxum var. Victor, C. Evansianum, 
sepal and petals, larger than C. Thalia, but less blotched, C. Stevensii, of 
oured segments, 
the Lathamianum type, but with a very. broad band.to the dorsal sepal ; a’ 
seedling said to be from C. Pollettianum and insigne Harefield Hall var., 
but most like the latter, and a second seedling, 
The latter has a twin-flowered — 
scape, and is very handsome. C. Thalia giganteum and. Mrs. Francis j 
in which. the C. Fairrieanum 
influence is well. shown, while the larger and equally well. blotched C.— 
petals and dorsal sepal with © 
C. Godefroyz being: very — 
The remainder are C. Troilus, a large flower of 
with well-blotched dorsal 
having many purple spots : 
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