NOVEMBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 329 
CULTURE OF PAPHIOPEDILUM FAIRRIEANUM. 
THE question of the most suitable cultural treatment for Paphiopedilum 
Fairrieanum has been much discussed, and now that the species is once 
more common it becomes a matter of great importance, for we do not want 
history to repeat itself with this interesting plant. A charming little 
photograph has been sent to us by M. Joseph Ginot, St. Etienne, Franee, 
together with the following letter :—‘‘ Herewith I send you a photograph of 
Cypripedium Fairrieanum. This plant gave me four flowers last year, and 
this year it has just borne five. I acquired the plant from Mr. Sander, and 
on the advice of Mr. Lefebvre, his representative, I established it in a very 
Fic. 43. PAPHIOPEDILUM FAIRRIEANUM. 
Substantial compost, thoroughly drained. I have cultivated it until the 
Present year in a cold house, low and very damp, in which I raise Orchid 
Seedlings and Bertolonias. It is a flower of this variety which is repro- 
duced in the Dictionnaire I conographique des Orchidées.” 
As the species has been so recently figured we rather hesitated about 
Teproducing this photograph, but two reasons induced us to publish it. 
One is that it will enable our readers to judge of the success of the treat- 
ment, the other that the broad, short, spreading leaves are so distinct om 
the one previously illustrated (O.R. xiii. p. 265, fig. 62). One of the Kew 
