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collection in which the flowers are blush-pink throughout, the characteristic 
orange blotch being obliterated. The disc is slightly suffused with very pale 
yellow, and in front of it there is a faint zone of deeper pink. But the 
colour is so nearly uniform throughout that it may be called C. Schroederze 
concolor, The flower is of good size and i shape, and altogether the 
variety is very distinct and attractive. 
A fine flower of Cypripedium x orphanum comes from O. O. Wrigley, 
Esq., of Bury, who remarks that, although a plant of doubtful origin, he 
thinks the parentage is clearly shown in the flower. The general shape is 
near that of C. barbatum, and the dark stripe of the dorsal sepal and petals 
shows the influence of C. Druryi, while the colour of both parents can be 
distinctly traced. This is quite correct, and we think that the crigin of 
this pretty hybrid is no longer a matter of uncertainty. 
A very fine flower of the beautiful Dendrobium x Venus comes from 
Mr. James Cypher, Cheltenham, the petals being over 2} inches long, and 
the other parts proportionately developed. There are thirty flowers on the 
plant, and the best pseudobulb is four feet long. It affords evidence of 
good culture, as the stock of this hybrid has been raised by propagation 
from the original batch. It is a seedling from D. Falconeri, crossed with 
D. nobile, and most resembles the latter in habit and the former in the 
flower, except that the characteristic yellow blotch of the mother plant is 
wanting. It is one of the finest hybrid Dendrobiums known. 
A fine form of Cattleya Mendelii, called Uplands variety, from the 
collection of C. Winn, Esq., The Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham, has a 
broad purple band along the middle of the lip, near the apex. The ground- 
colour is very pale blush-pink, with the front half of the lip bright ruby- 
crimson. It is a very handsome form. 
Cypripedium Haynaldianum superbum comes from the same collection. 
It is large and brightly coloured, but its chief peculiarity is that the nerves 
on the sides of the dorsal sepal are purple, and the spots extend to rather 
above the middle. Those on the petals are large, and very deeply coloured. 
Mr. James Cypher, Cheltenham, sends flowers of Dendrobium Hilde- 
brandii and its pretty variety oculatum, the latter differing in the possession 
of a pair of maroon eye-like spots at the base of the lip. This variety 
seems rare, but was originally collected with the typical form. The species 
was figured at page 49. 
Mr. H, T. Clinkaberry, gardener to C. G. Roebling, Esq., Trenton, New 
