Deo9mber £9, 1887. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
£65 
f ° U f fine fl , ow . ers each - This Cypripedium will undoubtedly 
obtain a great popularity, and in the future when it becomes more 
abundant will supersede all but the best varieties of C. inXne for 
winter culture. Of the Sedeni type we have the original form, c! 
vivicans, a fine dark variety in the way of C. oenanthum superbum, C. 
insigne Maulei, C. microchilum, C. marmorophyllum, C. vexillarium, C. 
calosum, C. Barteti, C. purpuratum, C. Sclimi, and C. Mrs. Charles 
Oanham. The last named resulted from a cross between C. Veitchi and 
Sedeni candidulum, with most delicately tinted or nearly white flowers 
and C. cardinale, which has a deep rose compact lip, bluish petals, and 
whitish dorsal sepal, a handsome and useful hybrid. C. Schrcederas is 
also one of the rose or crimson tinted hybrids with massive flowers, a 
large lip, and very long drooping petals. Then there are plants of the 
rich dark polished C. oenanthum superbum, C. calurum, C. Harrisianum 
C. villosum, but did not originate in this nursery ; it has very large 
flowers,_ 6 inches in diameter from tip to tip of the outstretched petals, 
the lip is also deep and of great size, the dorsal sepal and petals have a 
peculiar dark reddish brown tint, the lip is lighter coloured and well 
formed. It is extremely free, of strong habit, and evidently a thoroughly 
useful acquisition. 
