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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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been retained by the owner were acquired by Sir Trevor Lawrence 
and Baron Schroder ; the last-named gentleman has since added 
others to his collection, so that by far the greater portion of the 
growths from the original plant of this remarkable Orchid now 
forms part of the magnificent collection at The Dell.” 
To sum up the merits of the book in a few words—it contains 
all that any amateur or professional cultivator of Orchids can wish 
to know about Cypripediums. 
The work produced by M. Godefroy-Lebeuf is of a very 
different character from the above, but is equally admirable, though 
by Mr. N. E. Brown of Kew. The botanical value of the work is 
enhanced by giving the original description of each species or 
hybrid in the language in which it was first published, with a list of 
synonyms and references to plates and descriptions in other books 
or publications. Analytical sections are also introduced with each, 
of the leaves, bracts, sepals, petals, lip, column, staminode, and 
ovary ; a dotted line in the case of sepals and petals showing 
the forms of these organs when pressed flat. In the first part the 
following species are described and illustrated— i.e., Lowi, super- 
biens, philippinense, purpuratum, Sallieri, ciliolare, and caudatum ; 
but it is intended, if the work receives the encouragement it amply 
Fig. 15.—CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI PLATYTiENIUM. 
from another point of view. It is the commencement of an 
elaborate, illustrated, monograph of the genus Cypripedium, of 
which the special feature is supplied by the magnificent chromo¬ 
lithographs produced by G. Severeyns from water-colour drawings 
by Mdlle. Jeanne Koch. These are 13£ inches deep by 1 Of wide, 
representing flowers and leaves of their natural size with miniature 
uncoloured sketches of the whole plant to indicate the habit. For 
accuracy and artistic beauty these plates are some of the best yet 
produced, and would alone render the work of the greatest value. 
Full descriptions with cultural notes of each plant depicted are 
furnished in French and English, the latter text being contributed 
deserves, to give a plate of each species with the principal varieties 
and some of the hybrids, so that it would become a standard work 
of reference. 
WATERSIDE PLANTING. 
I sometimes think that we do not do our best to make our 
pond sides and stream margins as attractive as they might be 
in or near to our gardens. In Hyde Park but little is done in 
this way. At Battersea things are better, but in all the public 
gardens I know, what I may here call the “ wa+er garden ” is but 
