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A beautiful series of flowers is sent to illustrate these remarks. The 
first set comes from Mr. J. T. Barker, gardener to W. P. Burkinshaw, 
Esq., Hessle, E. Yorks, and all are remarkable for their splendid develop- 
ment. C. Boltonii magnificum, represented by a strong twin-flowered 
scape, is a charming white, with a very few minute purple dots on the 
dorsal sepal. C. Queen-Alexandra Hessle var. also bears a very strong 
twin-flowered scape, in which the characters of C. Charlesworthii and C. 
Lathamianum are combined, as seen in the nearly white staminode, the 
broad white dorsal sepal, with a dark purple band and a purple suffusion 
on each side, and broad, villosum-like petals. It ranks as a variety of C. 
Ami-Jean, which flowered with M. Duval in 1899. C. Euryades King 
Edward VII. has villosum-like petals, and the dorsal sepal bears very 
numerous blackish purple blotches. C. Our-Queen (Leeanum xX Stevensii) 
is a massive flower, with very broad dorsal sepal, covered with minute 
purple dots, and very broad undulate petals, approaching those of C. 
Boxallii in colour. One called Sunset, which looks like a form of the 
variable C. Leander (Leeanum  villosum), is represented by a fine normal 
flower, and another having two staminodes, two somewhat spreading dorsal 
sepals, and an upright petal between them. C.chrysotoxum (Lathamianum 
X villosum), is a very large and striking flower, and C. Golden-Queen, 
derived from C. aureum virginale crossed with the preceding, is a pretty 
light yellowish flower, with a narrow brown line down the petals, the dorsal 
sepal mostly white, with a slight purple line, and the staminode very pale. 
Lastly, C. Hera x Beeckmanii is an immense flower, six inches across, with 
villosum-like petals, of great substance, and the disc of the white dorsal 
sepal with dark blotches below, passing into a lighter purple reticulation 
above. Mr. Barker remarks: ‘I don’t think Cypripediums of this class 
will ever become unpopular,” and we fully agree. 
A charming series of seedlings is sent by the Rev. J. Crombleholme, 
Clayton-le-Moors, from a zroup exhibited at the meeting of the Manchester 
Orchid Society held on January 20th. C. Infanta is from C. Robsonii 
(insigne x exul) crossed with C. Lathamianum. There are five seedlings, 
having a round white dorsal sepal, prettily spotted with purple, and 
spreading petals, suffused and veined with brown on a greenish yellow 
ground. In. three of them the dorsal sepal is slightly concave, with only a 
little green at the base, and in one of these the white is far in excess of the 
spotted area. C. Robsonii X Euryades Sander’s var. has large, solid 
purple-brown blotches on the dorsal sepal, and very numerous small spots 
on the petals, and is very promising. Two seedlings of C. daffrosum (C. 
Hobartii x Schlesingerianum M. de Curte) are remarkably diverse, one 
recalling a light C. Leeanum X_ villosum, the other being dark, and. 
almost a blend of C. villosum and Boxallii, quite a curious difference. C- 
