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sown on the compost. These albinos were then not more beautiful than 
they are to-day, but they were much rarer, and rarity always counts. At 
all events a customer, with an eye to future possibilities, paid a considerably 
enhanced price for that particular plant. But Orchid seeds, like some 
others, do not always come up when they are expected to, a thing which 
happened in this particular case, and the confidence of the purchaser in 
Fig. 15. CyPRIPEDIUM MAUDI#. 
(Flowers white and green.) 
that record had reached such a low ebb that when complaint was made, 
and the vendor intimated his willingness to take the plant back at the 
Original price, he was glad to close with the offer. 
But this does not finish the story, for very soon after the return of the 
plant some tiny seedlings began to make their appearance, and they were 
naturally watched with a good deal of interest. It soon became apparent 
that they were true albinos like their parents, and it now remained to be 
proved whether they were hybrids. Some three or four years later the first 
of them flowered, and proved to be not only intermediate in character but 
also a plant of great beauty, worthy of receiving a First-class Certificate at 
Manchester. This point being settled, the flower was kindly forwarded to 
us, and some years later the vendor favoured us with the story, adding that 
