THE ORCHID WORLD. 
CYPRIPEDIUM WATERLOO. 
THE following particulars concerning 
this very fine Cypripedium hybrid 
have been kindly sent by Francis 
W'ellesley, Esq., W'estfield, Woking 
purchased, having paid ;^45 for it, as an 
unnamed seedling, in December, igoi. One 
could get a really good Cypripedium for £4.^ 
in those days. 
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Cypripedium^' W alerloo. 
" This Cypripedium was raised here, the 
mother plant being my old favourite Mrs. 
Wm. Mostyn, and the pollen parent rubescens 
Ranjitsinhji. It is a particularly interesting 
h\'brid to me, because Mrs. Wm. Mostyn was 
the first expensive Cypripedium which I 
" I exhibited M/s. Wm. Mostyn in January, 
igo2, when it attracted considerable atten- 
tion and received a First-class Certificate 
from the Orchid Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. I think it was figured 
in nearly all the gardening papers. 
