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A large and very richly-coloured form of Cattleya Skinneri is sent by 
Mr. C. C. Hurst, Burbage Nurseries, Hinckley, together with an 
inflorescence of the rare Cypripedilum californicum, whose small yellow 
flowers with a white lip are not often seen in cultivation. 
A five-flowered spike of an exceptionally fine and richly-coloured form of 
Vanda teres is sent by Mr. W. Hurlstone, Parkfield Hallow Gardens, 
Worcester. A note on the culture of these plants appeared at page 358 of 
our last volume, and it is interesting to add that two hundred and twenty- 
six spikes have been produced this season, the two largest rafts producing 
forty-two spikes each. It must have been a splendid sight. 
Another of M. Ch. Vuylsteke’s seedlings between Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei and O. Harryanum has flowered, and proves to be considerably 
different from the original O. x Rolfez, though of course a variety of it. 
It is a magnificent thing, of exceptional size, bearing large violet-purple 
blotches on the sepals and petals, instead of small spots, the ground colour, 
as before, being nearly white. We have not seen anything like it before, 
and congratulate M. Vuylsteke on his success. 
A raceme of Dendrobium pulchellum (Dalhousieanum) is sent from the 
collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, which contains 
one very remarkable flower, or rather two fused together side by side. The 
peculiarity, however, is that while the sepals and petals are doubled as 
regards number, there are three lips, each fairly perfect, though a little 
displaced by the crowding. 
Two good forms of Cattleya citrina are also sent, one having no white 
_on the lip, and the sepals and petals somewhat spreading, approaching the 
variety aurantiaca. 
A very remarkable variety of Cattleya Schroedere has appeared in the 
collection of Mrs. Briggs-Bury, Bank House, Accrington, in which the 
broad petals are flamed with light purple something like a tulip. It has 
flowered out of some imported plants, and, if it keeps true to its character, 
should be a striking thing when fully established. 
Four distinct and pretty forms of the charming little Odontoglossum 
Cervantesii are sent from the collection of Richard Ashworth, Esq., of 
Newchurch, near Manchester. One is like the variety decorum, and has 
the lip barred with brown at the base and spotted at the margin. Another, 
equally good, has the sepals and petals suffused with blush, and the lip 
white. The others are more typical, but one has the lip spotted at the 
base, and the other pure white. 
