300 THE ORCHID REVIEW 
contrast effectively with the lighter colours of the preceding. The yellow 
D. chrysanthemum must also be mentioned as flowering freely, and the 
handsome D. formosum. Then there is the pretty little Cypripedium 
Charlesworthii, the gem of the gems, C. tonsum, an early flower or two of 
C. purpuratum and C. Spicerianum, C. Stonei, the pretty little C. x 
cenanthum, C. Xx politum, C. X Ashburtoniz, and a number of other 
hybrids which invariably make a good dispiay at this season. Selenipedium 
X Sedeni, and others of the group, are also very good just now. The 
principal remaining Orchids in flower in this house are some good trusses 
of Vanda suavis, the pretty little Angraccum Scottianum, and some plants 
of Phalznopsis Esmeralda, P. rosea, and P. violacea. 
The plants generally have made very good growths this season, partly 
on account of the large amount of sunshine and the abundance of air which 
it has been necessary to give, and almost everything promises a good 
display of flowers at the proper season. There can be no doubt that most 
Orchids like plenty of light and air, and with a due attention to shading and 
damping down they succeed better than in cold, wet, and comparatively 
sunless years. 
AMATEUR. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x HARRISIANUM VIRESCENS. 
THE freaks. of Cypripedium x Dauthieri have been recorded in our 
columns, and at page 239 of our August number a case of sporting in 
C. X Harrisianum, which led to an action at law, was noted. We have 
now another case to record. Cypripedium x Harrisianum virescens is 2 
green variety, which was described at page 235 of our second volume, from 
a plant in the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Twickenham, and 4 
year later from another which appeared with M. Peeters, of Brussels (supra 
III., p. 296). Mr. Little’s plant passed into the collection of R. I. Measures, 
Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, a small piece being retained by 
Mr. Little. This has now flowered as an ordinary light form of C. X 
Harrisianum, and suggests the probability that it originated as a sport and 
has now reverted back again. This point about its history has never been 
cleared up. Mr. Little Temarks that when he obtained the plant it was 
potted in loam and was rather starved, but it is now in peat. Whether 
these facts had anything to do with the plant’s peculiarities we cannot say 
Tt would be interesting to learn the behaviour of Mr. Measures’ plant. 
Also to know how and when the variety originally appeared. The future 
behaviour of these plants will be watched with some curiosity. 
