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with crimson, and also bordered with white. The whole margin of the lip 
is more reflexed than usual, and this, together with the very spreading 
petals, gives the flower an unusually flat appearance. It is cultivated 
under the name of ‘ Antoinette le Doux.” 
Cypripedium X Leeanum Clinkaberryanum is a very large and handsome 
variety, of which a flower has been sent by Mr. H. T. Clinkaberry, gr. to 
O84 2 Roebling, Esq., Trenton, New Jersey, and is said to be an improve- 
ment on C, X L. giganteum in shape, size, and colour. Unfortunately, the 
flower was partly faded on arrival, but it has decidedly improved since it 
was briefly described at page 99 of our third volume, for the dorsal sepal is 
now nearly 3 inches broad, and the petals nearly an inch across. 
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GERMINATION OF PAPHIOPEDIUM SEED, 
ON pages 6 and 7 of your last issue is an article on Paphiopedium seed, and 
the length of time some of it takes to germinate. I can give you 
one other instance where seed took over two years in germinating, 
namely P. Curtisii crossed with the pollen of P. Chamberlainianum. The 
seeds were sown on April 5th, 1895, and after being sown eighteen months, 
one seed only germinated. Seven months later some nine or ten more 
seedlings germinated, and three months later still about twelve more 
appeared. From that time to the present seeds have kept on germinating, 
making in all about thirty seedlings. I may mention another case, that of 
P. X marmorophyllum crossed with the pollen of P. Stonei, which also took 
over two years in germinating, but not with such good results. 
Epwarp C. H. Pips.ey. 
ORCHIDS OF 18q7. 
THE Orchids of the past year once more demonstrate that it is to the 
hybridist rather than to the collector that we must look for the production 
of sterling novelties for our collections. It is quite probable that other 
showy species remain to be discovered, as well as numerous forms of 
botanical interest, but the unexplored parts of the globe are now becoming 
so circumscribed as to warrant the belief that the great harvest of showy 
things has been gathered. The principal novelty of 1897 was the violet- 
purple Dendrobium Victoria-Regina, introduced from the Phillippines by 
M. Loher, besides which Lueddemannia Sanderiana, Maxillaria elegantula, 
and one or two others were described from Messrs. F. Sander & Co.’s 
establishment, and Mormodes badium and var. luteum flowered in the 
