THE ORCHID WORLD. 
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NEW PLANTS. 
Sophro-L.elio-Cattleya Alth.-ea (C. 
Percivaliana x S.-L. Gratrixiae). A beautiful 
flower, having the sepals and petals of deep 
rose colour with a slight golden flush ; the 
hp is of the same colour, but much darker. 
The throat is orange, slightly veined. 
Sophro-Laelio Gratrixiae is S. grandiflora 
X L. tenebrosa. This plant was exhibited 
by H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney, 
at the Royal Horticultural Society on 
November 22nd, 1910. 
Cypripedium Capt. Spender Clay 
(villosum auriferum x Fairrieanum). A 
bold, fascinating Cypripedium, of a 
pleasing yellowish straw colour, veined 
with darker yellowish-green. The dorsal 
sepal has a median .streak of dark pig- 
ment. The petals have the drooping 
habit of Fairrieanum. Exhibited at the 
Royal Horticultural Society on December 
6th, 1 9 10, by Messrs. Armstrong and 
Brown, Tunbridge Wells. 
Cypripedium Mrs. Spender Clay 
(Actaeus Drewett's variety x Fairrieanum). A 
pretty hybrid, quite intermediate in form and 
colour. The whole flower is very uniform in 
colour, being of a light yellowish tint. The 
dorsal sepal shows a large amount of white 
surface, the light spots on which are neatly 
arranged in parallel lines. The petals have 
a few small spots, are nicely crisped, and 
show the drooping nature of Fairrieanum. 
Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong and Brown 
at the Royal Horticultural Society, December 
f)th, 1910. 
The following three new plants were exhi- 
bited at the Royal Horticultural .Society on 
December CAh, 1910. They have been raised 
by W. H. -St. Quintin, Esq., Scampston Ha!!, 
Rillington, Yorks. 
L.elio-Cattleya Faustina (L.-C. 
bletchleyensis x C. Bowringiana). This hybrid 
shows the broad petals of Bowringiana and 
the large lip of Warscewiczii, which is one of 
the parents of bletchleyensis. 
L^LIO-CattleYA LaviNIA (L.-C. Epicasta 
X Bowringiana). A nice hybrid, differing 
from L.-C. Faustina by having pumila in the 
parentage instead of tenebrosa. 
L.^lLio-Cattleya Florentia (L.-C. La 
France x C. labiata). The former parent is a 
hybrid obtained by crossing tenebrosa with 
bicolor. In this plant the characteristics of 
the three species are easily discerned. 
CYMBIDIUM ERYTHROSTYLUM. ' 
The following interesting note concerning 
the cultural treatment, and also a photograph, 
of this plant has been kindly sent by Sir John 
Edwards-Moss, Bart., Roby Hall, Torquay. 
This plant was bought from Messrs. 
.Sander and Sons, of .St. Albans, in October, 
1906. It was potted in a mixture of loam, 
peat, broken brick (very fine) and sand. It 
was potted again in similar compost early in 
1908, and in March, 1909, when it was grow- 
ing strongly, it was re-potted, but this time 
less peat and brick rubble were used. 
Last year it carried four spikes, with nine, 
nine, eight and four blooms respectively. This 
year it had the same number of spikes, but 
the blooms were thirteen, ten, nine and seven 
■ — thirty-nine in all instead of twenty-nine. 
As soon as it has flowered the plant is put 
intO' the Mexican house, where it remains till 
the sun gets strong in spring. Then it is 
moved into a cool and high corridor, out of 
which both Mexican and Odontoglossum 
houses open, and there it remains, in a posi- 
tion where no direct sun can ever touch it, till 
its flowers are cut about the end of Novem- 
ber, when it returns to the Mexican house. 
