60 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, 19009. 
produced by a plant obtained from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. as C 
amethystoglossa x C. labiata. The flower is remarkably similar to that 
of C. x Victoria-Regina, and we should like to know more of its history. 
A spray of the very pretty hybrid Odontoglossum x Groganiz, whose 
history was given at page 30, is sent from the collection of J. H. Grogan, 
Esq., Slaney Park, Baltinglass. In habit and colour it most approaches O. 
Edwardii, but in the broader flatter segments and the shape of the lip the 
influence of O. Uroskinneri, the mother plant, is very apparent. Mr. Grogan 
adds: “I think you will agree that the colour is quite beautiful, and that a 
spike of four to six dozen of these flowers is a very attractive sight.” 
THE GERMAN ORCHID SOCIETY. 
ProFEssor Dr. Otro N. Witt writes: ‘‘ It may interest the readers of 
the Orchid Review to know that a complete reorganisation has taken place 
in the German Society of Orchidists, and its journal Orchis. The Society 
has joined our Horticultural Society, of which it will be in the future a 
section, and we have established an Orchid Committee similar to that of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, which will meet at regular intervals to 
discuss matters Orchidological. The Orchis will form part of the Gartenflora, 
the journal of the Horticultural Society, and will cease to publish its large 
and cumbersome plates. On the other hand we shall try to provide 
communications of general interest, besides, or instead of, the tedious Latin 
descriptions of purely botanical Orchids. I have taken upon myself the 
somewhat difficult task of looking after this. It would be very pleasant if at 
some future time we could establish friendly relations between English and 
German Orchidists.”’ 
We hope that the new arrangements will prove successful, and we 
heartily reciprocate the sentiments expressed by Dr. Witt, and should 
rejoice in any movement that tended to increase the bonds of friendship 
between two great progressive nations. There is to be an exhibition at 
Berlin in April next, of which we hope to receive further particulars. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALCEOLUS., 
THE Lady’s Slipper, Cypripedium Calceolus, is one of our rarest native 
plants at the present time—a fact not difficult to understand, seeing that it 
has not been plentiful for many years, and that it has been uprooted by 
hundreds, so that there are now few places where it is to be found wild, if, 
indeed, it has not wholly disappeared. Even on the Continent, where it 
was much more widely distributed, it is becoming scarce, so that its preser- 
vation as a garden plant is much to be desired. Its beauty and distinctness 
among hardy flowers render it worthy of a good place and a full considera- 
tion of its wants. Cypripedium Calceolus is a beautiful plant, with all the 
