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and brilliant crimson-scarlet in colour.—Kranzlin in Gard. Chron., June 
24th, p. 740. 
MASDEVALLIA X HENRIETTA. 
A beautiful hybrid, raised in the same collection as the preceding, 
between M. ignea erubescens 2 and M. Shuttleworthii 2. The flowers are 
intermediate in shape, striped and suffused with purplish on a_ yellowish 
ground. The flowers of three different plants are said to vary, one type 
inclining more towards M. Shuttleworthii than the other.—Kranzlin in 
Gard. Chron., June 24th, p. 740. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X CLINKABERRYANUM. 
A handsome hybrid, raised by Messrs. Pitcher and Manda, between 
Cypripedium philippinense Roebelenii and C. Curtisii, and named after Mr. 
H. A. Clinkaberry, gardener to the Hon. C. G. Roebling, of Trenton, New 
Jersey, U.S.A., into whose collection the single plant raised has now passed. 
The upper sepal is white, with about twenty purple stripes, and the droop- 
ing petals creamy white, spotted all over with purplish crimson. ‘The lip 
is tinged with dull rose in front, paler behind. ‘It bears some resemblance 
to C. x Morganie in shape.—O’Brien in Gard. Chron., July 22nd, p. 86, 
fig. 18. 
HARDY ORCHIDS FROM SEED. 
ALTHOUGH so much success has been attained in this country in raising 
tropical Orchids from seed, very little is known about the raising of hardy 
ones, and we are therefore the more pleased to be able to call attention 
to so interesting a subject. In a little work by M. Correvon, of Geneva, 
entitled, Les Orchidées Rustiques, a summary is given of what is know? 
on the subject, as we learn from a recent issue of the Gardeners’ Chromicle, 
from which we extract the following particulars. 
M. Correvon has reproduced the directions laid down by M. Moe 
Curator of the Botanic Garden, Christiania, and as the latter has ar 
ceeded in raising nearly all the Orchids indigenous to Scandinavia : 
este atin: Epipactis, no further recommendation is necessary. 
¢ bd . e. 
A mixture is made of one part peat, one of leaf mould, and one of at 
wood or pine, decomposed, but not too much crumbled, and to this ® 
added a little dry moss broken into small pieces (Hypnum by preference) 
a little swampy peat broken up, and a very small quantity of pine-needles : 
ssed into the pots where seeds are t0'® 
sown, and in them are planted _ 
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A little of this mixture is pre 
three or four living mosses (small spe¢ 
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