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| CYPRIPEDIUMS FROM. BRIDGE HALL, BURY. 
LOWERS of several remarkably well-grown Cypripediums are sent from 
f the collection of O.O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. Rogers, 
which demonstrate their utility as winter-blooming plants. C. Beryl is a 
well-known handsome flower, in which the characters of C. Beeckmanii 
and C. Mrs. Wm. Mostyn are combined. The centre of the dorsal sepal is 
emerald green, with numerous almost black blotches, and between this and 
the white margin are lines of small dots, while the lip and petals are 
villosum-like, the latter being over s+ inches broad. C. Vandyck var. 
Invincible (M. de Curte X hirsutissimum) is a very fine variety, having the 
dorsal sepal green, very closely and regularly spotted with dark brown and 
margined with white, while the petals are very broad, purple at the apex, 
and very undulate and spotted below. C. Troilus var. Cravenianum is 
remarkably fine, and recalls the Harefield Hall variety of C. insigne in the 
numerous very large spots of the dorsal sepal. Being descended from C. 
insigne and C. nitens, these two are forms of the earlier C. Romulus. C. 
keighleyense (Arthurianum X nitens) is a good thing, having a broad dorsal 
sepal, and the numerous spots arranged more or less in lines, as in the 
former parent, and the petals and lip nitens-like. C. Lucy (Sallieri virens 
x Euryades Low’s var.) has numerous black markings on the green dorsal 
sepal, and the petals and lip have also much of the Boxallii character. A 
stray seedling sent may well be a rather lighter form of the same. C. Mrs. 
Harry Bruce and a seedling from C. Sailieri x Thompsonii will both be 
forms of C. illustre, and have a green dorsal sepal, with brown suffusion 
and markings in the centre, and much of the villosum character elsewhere. 
C. villosum Mrs. Cary Batten is a very attractive flower, with shining 
brown sepals and petals, while the dorsal sepal has numerous brown lines, 
more or less confluent into a broad central disc. Lastly, there are 
attractive hybrids of C. exul, C. villexul Cypher’s var. being a very bright 
and attractive form, while C. Measuresianum (Amesianum) X exul is rather 
smaller, and shows much of the exul character, with hardly a trace of C- 
venustum. The flowers are splendidly developed, and were evidently cut from 
strong, well-grown plants, for which the Bridge Hall collectionisso famous- 
CYMBIDIUM CooPERI.—A handsome natural hybrid from Cymbidium 
insigne and C. Schreederi was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on 
February 24th last by G. Hamilton-Smith, Esq., Finchley (gr. Mr- 
Coningsby). It was imported by Messrs. Sander & Sons from Annam with 
its two parents, and most resembles C. insigne in habit, having a tall erect 
spike about four feet high, bearing 23 flowers. They are rather smaller 
