330 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
AN IDEAL CYPRIPEDIUM LIST. 
The paper in your last number, by Mr. E. H. Woodall, of Scarborough, 
under the above title, appears to me a remarkably good one, and most of 
the writer's remarks I cordially endorse. With your permission, however, 
T should like to say a word or two in favour of Cypripedium bellatulum and 
its hybrids. I acknowledge at once that I have seen this species exhibited 
at flower shows in such a way that probably few lovers of beauty in form 
or colour would accord more than a modicum of praise. To do Cypripedium 
bellatulum justice, I think it should be grown in hanging baskets, and as 
thus seen I believe most Cypripedium growers would consider it worthy of 
a high place in any ideal list. It does not appear to be suitable to be 
placed upon the ordinary stage and so looked down upon, but should be 
hung slightly above the level of the spectator’s eye. 3 
With regard to ‘ bellatulum’’ hybrids, I regret to say that my 
knowledge of them is chiefly confined to pictures and descriptions, but 
surely the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society had some 
adequate reason for bestowing First-class Certificates on Cypripedium X 
Southgatense, x Lawrebel, x Charles Richman, x Arnoldie, x Annie 
Measures, X Leysenianum, and x Gertrude Hollington, and Awards of 
Merit on C. x Evenor, x William Lloyd, X Mrs. Fred Hardy, x Olenus, 
and X Fowlerianum. 
In compiling an ideal list, I am afraid I should have found it difficult to 
_ leave out such species as superbiens, Sanderianum, and ciliolare (best forms) 
and the hybrids x vexillarium superbum, and xX cenanthum superbum, but 
perhaps Mr. Woodall, if he had extended his list, would have included 
these. What, too, about Cypripedium Fairieanum ? 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
reg 
CATTLEYA ELONGATA. 
A beautiful variety of Cattleya elongata has appeared in the collection 
of H. Little, Esq., The Barons, Twickenham, in which the sepals and petals 
are deep rose-purple, the front lobe of the lip bright rose, and the side lobes 
deep blush-pink. Itis the variety rosea, formerly known as C. Alexandrz 
Tosea. A variety maculata, with green sepals and petals spotted with 
purple brown, has also flowered, among other forms, in the establishment 
of Mr. H. A. Tracy, of Twickenham. It has the narrow undulate petals 
of the type, as well as the elongated scape. Messrs. Sander send a flower 
in which the side lobes of the lip are as bright rose as the front lobe, though 
it is quite typical in other Tespects. The species is evidently variable in 
colour. We have not yet heard of a plant with anything like the number 
of flowers seen in the wild specimens. 
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