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tions. For compost, use a mixture of good fibrous loam, crushed crocks 
and a little sphagnum moss. This should be used in a damp state and the 
plants potted firmly. Give little water until a firm hold has been taken in 
the new soil. 
This house should now be exceedingly gay, with Cypripediums of the 
insigne class, nitens, villosum, and their countless hybrids. Many Onci- 
diums and Odontoglossums should be in bloom, or throwing up their spikes. 
Epidendrum vitellinum majus should be still a bright member of the 
collection, together with Cymbidium Lowianum, Odontioda Vuylstekez, 
and others, too numerous to mention. 
SUGGESTED ADDITIONS. 
ODONTIODA CRAVENIANA.—This is an exceedingly pretty hybrid between 
Cochlioda Neetzliana and Odontoglossum cordatum. The flowers are of 
good size, and freely borne on long arching spikes, usually in the late spring, 
and keep several weeks in beauty. The sepals and petals are of a deep red 
colour, no trace of other tints being visible. Thelip, however, is creamy 
white in front, changing to a salmon red, with a brilliant yellow crest. In 
growth, in the manner in which the flower spikes are produced, and also in 
respect to their shape, this hybrid most resembles the seed-parent. 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDER#.—This is one of the most beautiful 
forms in existence, and is an albino or yellow variety of the species. Fortu- 
nately the plant is a free grower, and produces in the winter months its 
handsome flowers, which, if kept cool and shaded, frequently last from ten to 
twelve weeks in beauty. It is dearer than the ordinary species, but is well 
worth the additional cost, and is one of the easiest and most accommodat- 
ing Orchids to cultivate. The petals are of a clear lemon, the dorsal sepal 
also of the same colour, with a few minute brown specks, and a broad white 
margin, and the under sepal apple green. The pouch is also of a clear 
lemon. This fine variety is particularly constant, and is even largely grown 
by those who are not lovers of this class generally. Like the species, it can 
be grown in a greenhouse or vinery. 
LALIA GOULDIANA., 
SOME time ago Messrs. Sander & Sons obtained an importation of Lelia 
Gouldiana, a fact which occasioned surprise, owing to the belief that it is 
a natural hybrid. Now that the plants are beginning to flower there is no 
doubt about their identity. Some three years ago, when describing the 
collection of Sir George L. Holford, Westonbirt, allusion was made to 
“a very interesting seedling from Lzlia anceps ? and L. autumnalis 3, 
which it is supposed may prove to be a home-raised L. Gouldiana” (O.R., 
Xvi. p. 356). We did not see the flowers, but afterwards learnt that some 
of the plants had been acquired by Messrs. James Cypher & Son, who have 
