104 THE ORCHID WORLD. 
As a winter-flowering- orchid the Cypripe- 
dium will al\va\ s hold its own. At Arddarroch 
a large house is devoted to their culture, and 
at this season of the year it is gay with their 
slipper-like flowers. The varieties of the 
eve/-popular C. insigne are many, and here 
most of them can be observed and admired. 
From the typical form to the largest and best- 
marked varieties there are many intermediate 
kinds, each one displaying some distinctive 
mark of shade cr colour. If one admires the 
yellow blooms 
there are 
several of the 
best, includ- 
ing the fine 
variety 
Gladys and 
the beautiful 
S a n d e r ic 
M ore than 
lOO flowers of 
the latter may 
be seen open 
at the same 
time. 
Of celebra- 
ted hybrids 
there are 
good plants of 
Beeckmanii, 
Niobe Oak- 
wood variety, 
and trium- 
phans Bank 
House 
variety ; and 
also many 
beautiful hybrids, of which must be noted 
Madame Jules Hyc, with its richly coloured 
dorsal sepal, Leeanum Fowlerianum, Clinka- 
berryanum, Lavertonianum, Enfielense and 
Arthurianum, as well as a plant derived from 
Memoria Moensii x Spicerianum. Another 
Cypripedium, always admired, is the Burford 
variety of Euryades. It is a part of the 
original plant to which a First-class Certificate 
was awarded when exhibited by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence in iSqq, and was presented to M:. 
White by him. 
Odontoglossum crispum Dul^e of Montrose. 
It would be impossible to describe in this 
article the many thousands of plants which 
this house contains ; but if, from a point of 
beauty and distinctness, one mav be noted, it 
is a hybrid raised at Arddarroch and bearing 
the name Lady Helena Carnegie. The whole 
flower IS very pleasing, having a flat dorsal 
sepal, which is white, veined and beautifully 
shaded with various shades of brow-nish green. 
The petals and lip are stained a mahogany 
colour. ITnfo'/tunately the record of its 
parentage 
has not been 
kept. 
The interest 
taken in this 
house is likely 
to be main- 
tained, for 
there are on 
the side 
stages many 
thousands of 
unf lowered 
seedling C)-- 
p r i p e d i u m s, 
any one of 
w h i c h m a y 
unfold a 
flower of 
special merit, 
m a king it 
worthv of an 
honoured 
place in the 
collection. On 
the end stage 
of this house 
is a collection of Cymbidiums, comprising 
plants of Tracyanum with many flower-spikes, 
a nice plant of Lowianum concolor which has 
been crossed with eburneo-Lowianum, tigri- 
num with five leads, Lowgrinum carrjing a 
pod, the result of being fertilised with the 
pollen of erythrostylum, and a hybrid between 
cyperifolium and Tracyanum, which was 
raised in the collection of R. I. Measures, Esq., 
of Camberwell, and has just flowered for 
the first time. It is quit? intermediate in 
habit, the flowers being similar to a small 
