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a white Catt. intermedia passed the bounds of 

 Nature's eccentricity. After assuring himself that 

 the collector was not a man to play practical jokes, 

 he shrewdly judged that the chance was worth ten 

 guineas, and offered that sum — the normal price of 

 this species also is 5s. Under the condition, gravely 

 imposed and accepted, that he took all the risk of 

 disap23ointment, Mr. Measures carried off his prize. 

 It was Gatt. inter. Farthcnia, white as snow. Others 

 have turned irp among the hundreds of thousands 

 imported before and since, but none compare with 

 the earliest. 



" I return to Lcvlia anceps. No one, happily, had 

 fallen in love with the three marked specimens 

 remaining, and in due time they flowered. First 

 came Ballantiniana, named after Baron Schroder's 

 famous gardener, also rosy of sepal and petal, but, 

 unlike that other, flushed with purple at the tips. 

 The third proved to be a very fine example of the 

 usual colouring, not otherwise remarkable. The 

 fourth was Schroderce — deep rose in sepal and petal, 

 the latter purpling at the tips, with a labellum so 

 darkly maroon that it is termed black. Baron 

 Schroder bought it at a long price. In this instance, 

 therefore, three plants out of an importation not 

 less certainly than ten thousand proved to be so 

 exceptional as to merit a specific name. 



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