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first flowered in 1893, and proved decidedly superior to the original form. 
P. x Niobe (Fig. 3).—After an interval of no less than fifteen years, a 
third Fairrieanum hybrid flowered, namely, P. x Niobe, in 1889. This 
also was raised by Mr. Seden, the mother in this instance being P. 
Spicerianum. It was also raised in the collection of Holbrcok Gaskell, 
Esq., Woolton Wood, Liverpool, flowering in 1890. The parentage is said 
to have been lost, but as the seedlings proved identical with those raised by 
Messrs. Veitch, there can be no doubt that they originated from the same 
cross. It is a very charming hybrid, in which the Fairrieanum character is 
most apparent in the veining of the dorsal sepal, but may also be traced in 
other parts of the flower. 
Fic. 2. P. X ARTHURIANUM (see p..7), 
P. X BALLANTINEI.—The following year Messrs. Veitch flowered 
another charming little Fairrieanum hybrid, which Mr. Seden obtained as a 
seedling from P. purpuratum. It is quite intermediate between the parents, 
and both sepals and petals are beautifully veined with purple. It was 
originally described as Cypripedium x H. Ballantine, but the name is 
modified above in accordance with the R.H.S. rules for the nomenclature 
of primary hybrids. | 
P. X JUNO is a very beautiful hybrid raised in the collection of 
D. O. Drewett, Esq., Riding Mill on Tyne, by Mr. A. J. Keeling, from 
