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of Phalznopsis Schilleriana and P. amabilis with far-spreading roots on an 
almost bare tree trunk, entirely unhurt by the cold. 
About forty miles further south is the Royal Palm Park on Paradise 
Key, presented by the State of Florida and cared for by the State Federation 
of Women’s Clubs. Paradise Key is not an island, as might be inferred 
from its name, but a tract of elevated land of about a thousand acres in a 
great flat prairie, nearly at sea level, and overgrown with a most varied 
flora, which those who know say will compare with any beauty spot in the 
West Indies or tropical South America. The Curator tells me that no 
Orchid, native or foreign, has so far been known to be hurt there, and 1 
have left my few thousand remaining hybrids, when I no longer have use 
for them, to be naturalised on the trees there. The plan is to retain all the 
natural features, but to add everything beautiful that may be able to make 
itself at home in the environment. The relative difference in distance and 
climate between this part of Florida and that is the difference between 
Yorkshire and South Devon in England. T. L. Meap. 
Oviedo, Florida. 
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FLOWER of the brilliant Sophrocattleya Poppza (S. grandiflora x 
C. Empress-Frederick), is sent by R. G. Thwaites, Esq., in whose 
collection at Streatham it was raised. The flower is fairly intermediate in 
character, the segments being broad and well-shaped, and the colour deep 
crimson-rose, with some yellow in the throat. 
An example of the charming Cypripedium Venus var. Boltonii (niveum 
X insigne Sandere) comes from the collection of William Bolton; Esq., 
Wilderspool, Warrington. It is most like a much enlarged C. niveum in 
shape, and has a few minute purple dots on the dorsal sepal and petals. 
The first flower of a seedling Cypripedium is sent from the collection of 
Mrs. E. J. Thatcher, The Manor House, Chew Magna, Somerset. The 
parentage is unfortunately unknown, as it was purchased at a sale, without 
record. It has the general character of C. Leeanum, of which we think 
it is a variety. The seedling is said to be vigorous, and is producing 
another flower. 
A curious flower of Cattleya Trianze is sent by Messrs. Sanders, St. 
Albans, in which the lip is broken up into three, all the other parts being 
normal. The two lateral divisions of the lip represent the petaloid stamens 
of the outer staminal whorl, while the central one is the median petal. 
The divisions have the usual coloration, and thus we have a lip resolved 
into its constituent parts, an unusual and interesting occurrence, 
