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beautiful form, having bright buff-yellow sepals and petals, and a ruby- 

 purple lip. The other is more buff, and has a much paler lip. A form of 

 Paphiopedilum X Richmanii is extremely handsome, both shape and colour 

 being excellent. It is sent as a hybrid between P. bellatulum and some 

 unknown parent, but a comparison shows that it is a form of the one 

 mentioned above. There is also a very fine form of P. insigne, having the 

 dorsal sepal z\ inches broad, and the blotches large, but not extending 

 into the white area. It is allied to the variety Chantinii, but differs in the 

 character just mentioned, and we cannot ascertain to w hich of the innumer- 

 able varieties of P. insigne it belongs. 



EXCHANGE OF DUPLICATES. 



I AM pleased to see that this question has been again revived in the Orchid 

 Review and trust that it may meet with a wide and generally approving re- 

 sponse. In all such exchanges, there are certain difficulties to be overcome, 

 one of which would be the considerable variety in the quality of the specimens 

 offered under a particular name, especially unless they be portions of, or 

 propagations from, certain well-known individual plants, which have 

 obtained certificates. Another difficulty that must also arise in connection 

 with such published lists is that of ascertaining the bond fides of corres- 

 pondents whose names are not well known, but the advantages appear to 

 me to greatly outweigh possible small drawbacks, and such a list would at 

 any rate be the means of putting amateurs all over the country in direct 

 communication with each other, and they could ascertain by correspondence 

 more exact particulars concerning the plants offered. It is the Exchange 

 lists, similar to the one suggested for the Orchid Review, that are found to 

 be the most popular feature in some of the entomological and scientific 

 magazines, and which largely tend to the maintenance and increase of their 

 circulation. Frederick J. Haxbury. 



Upper Clapton. 



In a recent issue of the Orchid Review I notice an opinion is invited 

 as to the desirability of keeping a page where Orchid growers can set out 

 duplicate plants which they have for exchange. I think there would be 

 advantages in adopting such a course. The only danger I can see is in case 

 it should be carried to an extent which might make the transaction too 

 much a commercial matter and interfere with the trade, which would 

 certainly be undesirable, but exchanges to a reasonable extent between 

 private growers could hardly be prejudicial to the trade. Amateur. 



As a subscriber and reader of your valuable journal, and an Amateur 

 Orchid Grower, I think such an addition as suggested would prove to be a 



