FEBRUARY, 1915.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 4! 
Yorks, by Mr. J. T. Barker, illustrates how indispensable they are at this 
dull season of the year.. A house full of well-grown plants is indeed a sight 
worth seeing, and Mr. Barker remarks: “ We have had and still have a 
most remarkable display.’”’ Two photographs are also sent, C. Leeanum 
var. Corona and C. Priam (insigne x Niobe), the latter being here 
reproduced as an illustration of the way they are grown at Hessle, which 
is further emphasised by the quality of the flowers sent. 
The majority are hybrids, and it is interesting to note the preponderating 
influence of C. insigne among them, in fact, winter-flowering Cypripediums 
might almost be expressed as C. insigne and its derivates, though there are 
Vigna Marat BARKER. 
a few exceptions. There are Fives forms of . Gi insigne, the two fine yellows, 
Sander and Sanderianum, the one known as Chantinii Lindenu, the large 
Harefield Hall var, and var. Thompsonianum, with very. numerous. dark 
blotches on the dorsal sepal.. C. Leeanum is represented by seven well- 
known varieties in fine condition. C. Venus and its variety Boltonii are of 
a totally different: type, representing the union of C. niveum with C. insigne 
and C. i. Sanderz respectively, and showing many of the insigne qualities. 
The others are secondary or more _— hybrids, in which the insigne 
influence is strongly marked. 
The C. Fairrieanum influence is seen in C. Thalia and its vated Mrs. 
F. Wellesley, and in the superb forms known as Germaine Opoix and 
Gaston Bultel, all represented by tinely-developed flowers. It will afford 
