110 THE ORCHID. REVIEW. 
handy form. Even such a subject as stoking the fires is not neglected. 
The different houses necessary, their structure and position, with the 
varieties suitable for each, are treated in detail ; besides which we find a 
Calendar of Operations for every month of the year. 
The illustrations, which are reproduced from photographs, are of a novel 
and very useful character. They include—Cattleya and Odontoglossum, as 
imported, and after being potted, with a section showing the method of 
drainage—Dendrobium and Cypripedium potted, the former also in pan and 
basket—A Model Orchid house, with outlines—Section of Boilers and arrange- 
ments for shading. The charge brought against some of the text-books that 
they are written for the initiated does not at all events apply to thisone. We 
recommend it to our readers with the utmost confidence. The condition of 
the splendid collection under Mr. Burberry’s charge is ample guarantee of 
the soundness of the advice given. One or two slight details of nomenclature 
we should like to see amended in a future edition. It forms a suitable 
pendant to the preceding work, and those who are induced to commence the 
cultivation of Orchids should first master the details of this useful little 
book. 
THE HYEerote.. 
SELENIPEDIUM X STELLA. 
THE rare Selenipedium vittatum has been pressed into the service of the 
hybridist, as Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, have recently 
flowered a very pretty seedling derived from this species and S. Schlimii, 
the latter being the seed parent. The sepals and petals are light rose 
colour behind, and light blush in front, with some darker spots near the 
base of the petals.. The lip is light rose in front with darker veins, much 
paler behind, and round the orifice light yellow densely spotted with brown. 
The staminode is nearly semicircular, pubescent, and blush white with rose- 
coloured apex. It approaches S. x Sedeni in shape, but has rather smaller 
flowers and shorter segments, and is notably different in the yellow spotted 
with brown at the orifice of the lip. It is a very interesting addition to the 
genus. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X CALLOSO-ARGUS. 
A hybrid derived from C. Argus ? and C. callosum 2%, which has flowered 
in the collection of H. Graves, Esq., Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A. The 
flower is most like C. callosum in shape; the dorsal sepal white with bright 
green veins; the petals deflexed, nearly three inches long, bright green 
flushed with vinous purple near the apex, and studded with blackish purple 
callosities on the superior margin, the lip vinous brown, with the infolded 
side-lobes yellowish and spotted with brown, and the staminode translucent 
and reticulated with green. The leaves have the markings of C. Argus. 
