44 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X ARTHURIANUM PULCHELLUM. 
At page 305 of our first volume, when figuring the interesting Cypripedium 
 Arthurianum, allusion was made-to‘the variety pulchellum, which also 
was raised in the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of 
Chelsea. Through their kindness we have received a flower of each, 
and can compare them side by side. C. Fairieanum was the pollen 
parent in each case, but the seed parent of the variety pulchellum 
was C. insigne Chantini, instead of typical C. insigne. The variety 
-has a proportionately broader dorsal sepal, being only two inches long 
instead of two and a half inches, as in the type. The spots are fewer 
in number, nearly twice as large, and rather darker brown. They 
also extend rather nearer to the apex, and those which occur .in the 
white area are purple instead of dark brown. The petals are also 
as much shorter as is the dorsal sepal, the nerves rather darker 
brown, and the spots on the inner half a little larger. The. lower 
sepal is also shorter and broader. In other respects the two are 
remarkably alike. With regard to C. x Arthurianum typical, we may 
note that the spots are rather less confluent in lines than in the form 
shown in our illustration. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X Mrs. TAvTz. 
This is said to be one of the most beautiful and striking hybrids ever 
raised, though unfortunately there is no record of its parentage. It is 
compared with an improved C. insigne Chantini, and from the description 
is apparently allied to C. x nitens.—O’Brien in Gard. Chron., Dec. 30th, 
P- 798. 
THE HISTORY OF ORCHID CULTIVATION. 
PART I. 
THE History of Orchid cultivation, from its commencement over a century 
and a half ago to the present time, is an extremely attractive subject, and 
is crowded with details of the most interesting kind. The circumstances 
attending their introduction, the various difficulties which had to be over- 
come before their cultivation was properly understood, and the long roll of 
illustrious names who have each played their several parts in the drama, all 
tend to make it one of absorbing interest to every cultivator of Orchids. We 
have therefore decided to publish a series of articles upon the subject, and 
hope it will prove as welcome to our readers as the History of Orchid 
hybridisation, which appeared in our last volume. 
The first tropical Orchid which appears to have been cultivated in 
England was Bletia verecunda. There is a fine coloured plate i in Martyn’s 
