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THE FLORIST AND P0M0L0GIST. 
[September, 
well filled with, roots before top-growth commences. The bulbs should always 
be selected for weight and substance, in preference to size. Any bulbous or 
tuberous-rooted plants assuming a state of rest must not have much water given 
them, only just sufficient to prevent them from ceasing to grow too suddenly. 
Although in general the beauty of our flower gardens begins to decline about 
the middle of this month, we may expect them to continue gay this season till 
the close of the month, if the weather be at all favourable, as the plants were 
late in starting into growth. When gaiety decreases, let neatness and order 
increase. Dahlias and all other tall-growing plants yet remaining in perfection, 
should have every attention paid to them to keep them so as long as possible. 
Continue to put in cuttings of all kinds of Bedding plants . All the cuttings that 
it is intended to root and pot off before winter, should now be put in, while there 
is time to take advantage of the atmospheric agents—heat, light, and moisture— 
that surround us; a month hence the best endeavours to increase a stock of 
cuttings will be comparatively unavailing. Continue to pot off all cuttings as 
soon as they are fit, and endeavour to get them strong and well rooted before 
the dull weather sets in. Take care to have all tender plants under protection 
before there is any danger from frost.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
LADY'S SLIPPERS. —Chapter IX. 
,ME have here the pleasure of introducing an excellent figure of the fine 
Cypripedium superbiens , from some really superb specimens which were 
grown by Mr. Denning, in the noble collection of Lord Londesborough, at 
Grimston Park. This charming plant is frequently grown in collections 
under the name of C. Veitchianum , and is undoubtedly the handsomest of the 
barbatum group, both with respect to its flowers, which are extremely showy, 
and its leaves, which are beautifully mottled, so that whether in or out of flower, 
it is remarkably ornamental. This plant is still somewhat rare, yet sufficiently 
moderate in price to allow amateurs to possess themselves of it. Its flowers last 
for a very long time in a fresh state, especially if kept from drip or sprinklings 
from the syringe. The leaves are usually from 6 in. to 10 in. in length, oblong- 
ligulate, and variegated or chequered on the upper side with two distinct shades 
of green. The flowers are large, and are produced singly on erect downy pedun¬ 
cles, some 10 in. or 12 in. high, the dorsal sepal being much larger than the 
coalescing inferior ones, broadly ovate, white, conspicuously streaked or lined with 
green. The petals are 3 in. long, linear, oblong, bluntish, and falcately deflexed, 
whitish, becoming greener towards the base, and flushed with rose towards the 
tip; they are freely spotted throughout with dark purple, and bear along the 
upper edge dark purple warts, as well as a fringe of blackish-purple hairs on both 
margins. The pouched lip is large, oblong, rather pointed, dull purplish-brown, 
paler at the tip, and traversed on the sides with green veins ; the basal portion 
is inflected and warty, with a blunt lobe projecting into the sac, which has two 
