THE ORCHID Revie 
VoES IV. DECEMBER, 1896. [No. 48. 
NOTES. 
Tue last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society for the year will be 
held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on December 15th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 12 o'clock 
noon. 
Twin-flowered spikes, both of Cypripedium insigne and C. niveum, have 
been sent from the collection of H. Gurney Aggs, Esq., Pippbrook, Dorking, 
the former being from a plant which has always produced twin-flowers from 
the first. The plant which produced the latter has been out of doors from 
the middle of May to early in September, and is in robust health, as the 
flowers show. Mr. Aggs has for the last two years placed certain Orchids 
out of doors for the summer months, and hopes to give his experience after 
another season’s trial ; which will be very acceptable. 
A curious flower of Cypripedium insigne with three petals has been sent 
from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool. The 
two petals on one side are quite perfect, but a little narrower than usual, 
and probably arose by division of the original one, as the flower is normal 
in other respects. 
Another flower of Cypripedium X regale, described at page 324, is also 
sent from the same collection, together with a leaf, in which the charac- 
teristic markings of C. purpuratum are present in a somewhat modified 
form. In fact, this organ is as nearly intermediate between C. insigne and 
C. purpuratum as it can well be, and as the dorsal sepal shows both stripes 
and reflexed sides, which indicate the influence of the latter, we may safely 
assume the recorded parentage to be correct, 
