oo THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 910. 
this may be taken as a warning to those who are disposed to try it on 
Orchids. 
Inthe Cypripedium house one of the side stages is occupied principally 
with home-raised seedlings, mostly unflowered, many of which are showing 
buds. Mr. Smith has seedlings- from a self-fertilised C. insigne Gladys, the 
fine yellow variety, and it will be interesting to see if they come true. There 
were in flower several plants of C. X Morganie, C. X Youngianum superbum, 
with three spikes of three flowers each, C. Sanderiano-Curtisii, with three 
spikes of four flowers each, C. x villoso-Rothschildianum with three spikes, 
C. X T. B. Haywood, and several very fine C. Lawrenceanum, of which 
Mr. White has made a good collection, and other things. 
At one end of this range is a good collection of Cymbidiums, also doing 
_temarkably well. A fine specimen of C. Lowianum carried a hundred and 
nine flowers last year. An interesting pod noticed was C. Tracyanum x C. 
erythrostylum. : 
Arddarroch is a long way from Vincent Square, and to bring a group of 
plants in flower so far at this season of the year, to be shown for a short 
afternoon, is a matter to give cause for reflection; but if a group of O. 
crispum such as I saw in October should be shown, Iam quite sure that it 
would be a revelation to all who saw it. 
J.-M. Biacs, 
About the middle of December two dozen flowers of O. crispem were 
kindly sent by Mr. White, together with a good O. Pescatorei and a very 
fine O. x Wilckeanum, called White’s variety, the latter measuring a little 
over four inches across, and having broad light yellow sepals and petals, 
very heavily and regularly blotched with cinnamon-brown. The crispums 
form a most beautiful series, and one magnificent flower measures 4} inches 
from tip to tip of the petals and over 4? from the tip of the dorsal to the tip 
of the lateral sepals. The segments are very broad and toothed, and the 
colour white, with about three small red-brown spots on the lip, a short line 
of similar colour at the base of each petal, and a small spot on one of the 
lateral sepals. The majority are of great size and substance, with the broad 
segments that give that full round appearance to the flowers which is so 
much admired in this popular species. The range of variation is extensive. 
There are pure white forms with spots on the lip only, and these varying 
much in size and colour; blush and pink forms with similar markings ; and 
others well blotched on the sepals and lip, but the petals unspotted. All 
-may be termed typical O. crispum, none of the blotched forms being 
included. Onecan easily imagine what the entire inflorescence of some of 
these beautiful flowers must be like, and we must congratulate Mr. White 
and his able gardener on such remarkable success. 
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