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sixteen-inch pot, and bore fifteen spikes and an aggregate of seventy 

 flowers, the best spike carrying seven flowers. It is a picture of health 

 and vigour, and although the figure is necessarily greatly reduced, one 

 can readily imagine the effect produced by such a specimen. The hybrid 

 is too we 1 known to require description, and we may congratulate Captain 

 Holford and his able Orchid grower on such a notable example of good 

 culture. 



PAPHIOPEDILUMS FROM BURY. 



O. O. WRIGLEY, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, writes :— " It may interest you 

 to learn that I have had a very line display of Cypripcdium insigne blooms 

 since the commencement of the present month, and I have very great 

 pleasure in informing you that I have instructed my head gardener to cut, 

 label, and forward to you samples of the very choicest varieties among those 

 I grow. Each bloom will be labelled, so that you may know the name by 

 which we distinguish it from the numerous varieties which I possess. I 

 think I have previously drawn your attention to the wonderful fog-resisting 

 property which this, my favourite Orchid, possesses in an astonishing 

 degree. During the course of a fairly long life, I have never experienced 

 such a continual succession of the worst type of fogs as we have been 

 afflicted with during the past three weeks, and yet my Cypripedes have 

 passed through the ordeal without any material damage, and have kept on 



know that I have close on 1,300 Cypripedium blooms now open or just 

 expanding their flowers, and the greater number belong to the insigne 

 family or their hybrids." 



The flowers sent form a magnificent series, which for beauty of form, 

 colour, and robustness of growth it would be difficult to surpass. The 

 insignes form a remarkable series. The yellow forms include Sanderae, still 

 the best, Sanderianum, Lutwycheanum, Ernestii, Balliae, Youngianum, 

 Dorothy, Lindenii, Amesiae, Cobbianum, and Wm. Millie Dow, all but the 

 three first having what may be termed traces of the usual spots, but more 

 than half obliterated. Among spotted forms, in which the spots scarcely 

 extend beyond the green area, we have the old insigne, and the varieties 

 Wrigleyanum, a very fine form, having the white area broader and the 

 spots twice as large, magnificum with still larger spots, smaragdinum with 

 spots rather few and pale, and three others. Of those in which the green 

 area shrinks, leaving some clear purple spots on the white ground, there is a 

 still finer lot, including the well-known punctato-violaceum, tessellatum, 

 more compact and very closely spotted, marmoratum, Thompsonianum, 

 ornatum, exquisitum, having few large spots in the centre, and many small 



