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petaloid styles, thus jnaldng " false tubes " in adaptation for insect 
fertilisation. 
Yam [Dioscorea batatas), exhibited by Miss Breton, Forrest End, 
Sandhurst, who has successfully cultivated this well-known plant.— The 
tropical species do not thrive in this country ; but the more hardy 
Chinese Yam exhibited is likely to produce good crops in England. It is 
nearly 2 feet in length, and grows vertically ; but if a race " could be 
secured which would develop the long rhizomes horizontally, so as to 
avoid^the labour of deep trenching, it might become a new and valuable 
commercial commodity. The name " Yam " is doubtless a corruption of 
the French igname. 
Fig. 1. — Cyppjpedium ' Mrs. Fred Hardy,' (Journal o/ Horticulture. ) 
