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much smaller and very different males above. The actual specimen was 
sent to Kew by Mr. Ross, and is preserved in the Herbarium. Its history 
is given in the Orchid Review, iii. p. 263. There are also paintings of four 
very diverse forms of Lycaste Janet, a hybrid between the orange-yellow - 
L. Rossiana and the rose-coloured L. Skinneri, Lindl., showing an amount 
of segregation of character that is very rarely seen among primary hybrids. 
Another series shows a remarkable case of hybrid sporting in the dark 
purple-brown Cypripedium Dauthieri, a hybrid between C. barbatum and 
C. villosum. This first produced a sport irregularly striped and banded 
with purple-brown and green, which Reichenbach called var. Rossianum, 
and another harlequin-coloured sport, half greenish-yellow and _ half 
chestnut that was called var. Janet Ross, while still later a greenish-yellow 
form appeared which was called var. Poggio Gherardo, a change that may 
be roughly compared with an elimination of the purple colour of C. 
villosum, but retaining the hybrid character in other respects. The 
collection forms a valuable accession to the Herbarium. 
It may be added that an account of the early life of Mr. Ross is given 
in a work entitled Letters from the East, by Henry James Ross, 1837 to 
1857, and a Biographical notice in Orchid Review, x. pp. 282-284, while an 
account of the collection as it was preserved by Mrs. Ross is given in 
Orchid Review, xix. pp. 202-205, and of the garden generally in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1912 (May 11th, p. 345). R 
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(ame ORCHIDISTS’ GOLDEN WEDDINGS. RS 
HREE of our esteemed correspondents have just celebrated their 
Golden Wedding, and our readers will join us in offering ouf 
heartiest congratulations, and in the expression of the hope that they may 
be spared to see the anniversary of the day on many more occasions :— 
Dr. and Mrs. RUDOLPH SCHIFFMAN, of. Grand View, Pasadena, 
California, as we learn from the Pasadena Star News, was married on July 
26, 1867, and have lived happily through varied experiences which twelve a 
years ago brought them to their present residence. Three generations of 
the Schiffman family and many friends. were present at the celebration, 
and Dr. Schiffman drew liberally upon his fine Orchid collection t0 
decorate the house on the festive occasion, the result being a centre-piece 
of Orchids and ferns of exquisite loveliness upon the dinner table, which 
called forth many exclamations of admiration. Dr. Schiffman is the 
possessor of a very beautiful garden, designed by himself, and the nucleus 
of his fine Orchid collection dates back as long as fifty years. All his life 
he has been a great lover of nature, and a good many of his Orchids aré of 
