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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
and those which require special treatment should be grown in separate houses. 
It may be objected by some, that this system would prevent those persons with 
limited space growing many good varieties, but I would ask. Is it not more 
satisfactory to see a house well filled with perfect grapes of one or two kinds, 
rather than a dozen kinds, a moiety only of which are worth inspection; and this 
arising from circumstances which cannot be rectified, so long as they are indis¬ 
criminately subjected to the same treatment, regardless of their peculiar wants? 
Having ventured to make these few remarks by way of opening a most in¬ 
teresting subject, I will, in a future paper, give some details of successful as well 
as unsuccessful • culture, trusting thereby to induce others to chronicle their 
experience, so that, if possible, we may generally arrive at a more perfect theo¬ 
retical and sounder practical knowledge of this most important branch of horti¬ 
culture.—T. 0. W. 
ULMUS BERARDI. 
' ^OTHING more curious and distinct is met with amongst deciduous trees 
than this Elm, which in its general appearance has, so to speak, nothing 
in common with other Elms. It was found, M. Carriere tells us, in 1865, 
at the Nursery of MM. Simon-Louis freres, of Metz, in a seed-bed of com¬ 
mon Elm. In its foliage U. Berardi recalls that of Comptonia asplenifolia. It 
constitutes a very bushy shrub, with excessively slender ramifications ; its leaves 
are set on very close together, and are rarely spread in a distichous manner, 
excepting sometimes on the vigorous branches; they are of a very deep green 
colour, small and irregularly notched, in the fashion of those of Planera 
crenata^ and generally set against the branches, which they hide almost entirely. 
It is a shrub but little known, and also one of the prettiest and most curious 
of its family, which cannot be too much recommended for ornamental planting. 
CYPEIPEDIUM DOMINIANUM. 
^^^YBEID Orchids have met with objectors in the persons of those who 
3/ have feared or fancied they would upset all our present notions as to 
species limitation. They have, on the other hand, been welcomed by 
cultivators generally, and many real acquisitions owe their origin to the 
mysterious art of the hybridiser. The genus Cypripedium has furnished several 
of these novelties, perhaps more than any other family, and these we owe chiefly 
to the skilful manipulation of Mr. Dominy, one of the chefs in Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons’ establishment at Chelsea. That Mr. Dominy’s name should be attached 
to one of these plants is, therefore, most appropriate. 
The parents of the beautiful hybrid, of which, thanks to Messrs. Veitch, we 
annex a figure, were C. caudatwn and C. Pearcei^ and it is very interesting to 
observe that almost every organ is intermediate between those of the two parents. 
The leaves are linear-ligulate and arching, broader than in C. Pearcei. The 
spike bears three or more flowers, which expand simultaneously, and while the 
