Jamiar}-, 1913-] 
THE ORCHID WORLD. 
CYPRIPEDIUM VIKING. 
Spicerianum villosum iiisigne villosum 
Driiryi Spicerianum Latliamianum 
nitens 
I 
Buchaiiianum 
I 
illustre 
Viking. 
This new and elegant 
Cypripedium received an 
Award of Merit, Royal 
Horticultural Society, De- 
cember 3rd, 1 91 2, when 
exhibited by Lieut. -Col. 
Sir George Holford, 
K.C.V.O., Westonbirt. The 
diagram above will show 
that the raiser, Mr. H. G. 
Alexander, has made use 
of four species : msigne, 
villosum, Spicerianum, and 
Druryi, all of which are 
more or less represented 
in the resulting hybrid. 
The strong influence of 
villosum is seen in the 
broad petals and their 
peculiar varnished appeeir- 
ance, and in the dark, 
median coloration of the 
dorsal sepal ; Spicerianum 
has produced the broad, 
white dorsal, which always 
gives an attractive nature 
to any Cypripedium ; 
Druryi has imparted the wax-like texture and 
the slight yellowish tint diffused throughout 
the whole flower, and has also given breadth 
to the petals ; while insigne, as might be 
expected from the small part it takes in the 
parentage, is only ob,scurely represented. 
Cypripedium Viking is a distinct and useful 
addition to the Westonbirt series of these 
terrestrial Orchids. 
Oncidium CHEIROPHORUM.— The Journal 
of Horticulture, December igth, 1912, con- 
tains an illustration of a well-grown plant of 
this Colombian species. 
Pholo fey] 
NEW HYBRIDS. 
L.klio-Cattleya Evershotensis. — By 
crossing C. Forbesii with L. cinnabrosa (cin- 
mibrina x tenebrosa) a pleasing hybrid has 
been raised in Mr. Eustace F. Clark's collec- 
tion at Evershot, Dorset. The sepals and 
petals are clear straw-yellow, the three-lol)ed 
lip handsomely veined along its entire length 
Cypripedium Viking. 
[F. iyaldock. 
with crimson, and the bulbs inherit much of 
the tenebrosa form. 
L.5;lio-Cattleya Charmian. — Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons have produced this new 
hybrid between L.-C. bletchleyensis and C. 
Trianae. The influence of the flower of 
Warscewiczii, derived through the former 
parent, has imparted good qualities to the 
resulting new seedling. ^ 
Brasso-Cattleya Andre Maron. — Catt- 
leya Schroderse and Brasso-Cattleya Mrs. J. 
Leemann are the parents of this new hybrid, 
which was exhibited by Mr. Rene Gaveau, at 
the Berlin Orchid Show, November, 191 2. 
VOL. 111. 
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