THE ORCHID REVIEW. 365 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE AT BRIDGE HALL, 
BURY. : 
We have received the following interesting communication from O. O- 
Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, Lancashire :— 
At the present time, although a dull season for Orchid-bloom, I have a 
grand display of flowers from my numerous plants of Cypripedium insigne. 
Upwards of three hundred and seventy blooms are now open, or on the 
point of opening, and the individual flowers are generally very large. Of 
three which I have measured one was five and a half inches from the 
apex of the dorsal sepal to the extreme point of the pouch, and the same 
length from point to point of the extended petals, while the two others 
measured four and a half inches each way. 
The varieties, for the most part, are selected forms of the old Sylhet 
variety, but there are many plants of the choicer sorts, such as Chantini, 
punctato-violaceum, albo-marginatum, Maulei, Wiottii, Wallacei, and many 
fine forms of the more modern ‘‘ montanum” varieties. Indeed, two of 
the last named are the most magnificent forms, both for size and colour, 
that I have ever seen. 
I am very fond of this good, though somewhat old-fashioned Cypripede, 
and am hybridising it freely with the best kinds that require warmer treat- 
ment, as I am desirous of producing hybrids which will require cool treat- 
ment like the insigne parent. 
My insignes are grown in two temperatures, 
70° Fahr. by day to 55° by night, and the othe 
They grow equally well in either temperature, 
are father later under the cooler treatment. 
and fibrous peat, without a trace of sphagnum or ¢ 
the one ranging from about 
r 5° lower day and night. 
but, of course, the blooms. 
They are potted in crocks. 
harcoal in the compost. 
O. O. WRIGLEY. 
[We shall hope to hear again of the results of Mr. Wrigley’s experi- 
ments. The attempt to introduce greater variety into cool-house Cypri- 
nd deserves success, for we know of 
ne is grown in an ordinary greenhouse, 
ds would be gladly introduced if only 
amenable to cool treatment. By sowing the seed and growing the young 
Seedlings in the cool house, the hardier ones alone would presumably make 
adway and reach the flowering stage- We do not know if systematic 
experiments in this direction have before been tried. Half the seed might 
be sown in each of the two temperatures.—ED.} 
Pediums is a praiseworthy one a 
collections where Cypripedium insig 
and flowers regularly, and other kin 
— SO 
