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— Carnosa^ flesh, flushed with rose, shown also as a good spike. Cams CJiater^ 
reddish crimson, very fine. Crimsoji King^ deep cherry-red, fine quality. 
Fascmation^ rosy lilac, with a slight covering of silver, a very beautiful and novel 
flower. Fanny Chater^ rosy caraiine, very fine. Fred Chater^ pale yellow, 
shown also as a spike in fine condition. Joy, dark base, the edges of the flowers 
tinted with carmine, small, but very pretty. Jiinia^ pale, primrose suffused and 
stained with purple, very fine and novel in colour. Mrs. Hastie., deep pink, a 
fine and full flower. King., orange-buff, fine quality. Leah., golden yellow, very 
fine. Mrs. Downie., delicate soft salmon-rose, forms a grand spike. Midnight., 
deep glossy maroon, small in size as shown, but a very fine hue of colour. 
Mochanna, white flushed on the edge with pale rose, small, but of fine quality. 
Miss Lizzie King., yellow, forms a good spike. Queen of Yellows., clear bright 
yellow, very fine spike. Quadroon Improved (Minchin), very dark maroon, a 
fine flower. Walden Queen., soft delicate flesh, flushed with rosy carmine, pro¬ 
bably one of the finest flowers ever sent out. 
It is doubtful if a finer selection of flowers, new and old, could be made than 
those named above, which represent all the lines of improvement of which the 
Hollyhock has been made susceptible during the past ten years. They are both 
creditable to their raisers, and an honour to floriculture.—E. D. 
LADY^S SLIPPERS.— Chapter VI. 
the dreary winter season all flowers are welcome, and none more so than those 
of the pretty but old-fashioned Cypripedium insigne. It is a stemless plant, 
with long pale-green ligulate emarginate unequal-pointed leaves, and stout 
^ dark purple flower-scapes, bearing a solitary flower, the dorsal sepal of 
which is roundish-oblong, arching or incurved, undulated, yellow-green at the base, 
white at the top, the green part spotted with brownish purple; the anterior sepal 
is smaller, green, lineately blotched with brown purple. The petals are linear- 
oblong, nearly 2-^- in. long, obtuse, downy outside, glossy within, yellow-green 
suffused with a bronzy tint, spotted and indistinctly veined with dull purple, the 
undulated edge being uncoloured, and the base bearded. The lip is oblong- 
obtuse, shallow, with blunt erect lateral lobes, and of a bronzy yellowish-green, 
with the veins purplish, and the interior of the side lobes spotted. The sterile 
stamen is large, obcordate, papillose, yellow, bearded at the base with purple 
hairs, and having a blunt orange-yellow horn in the centre. There is in cultiva¬ 
tion a variety called Maulei., which has the leaves shorter, and the dorsal sepal 
much more brightly coloured, the white extending fully half-way down, and the ' 
spotting at the base being of a rich purple. The inferior form is, however, 
sometimes cultivated under this name. 
This' is one of the most useful orchids for winter decoration, as it con¬ 
tinues in bloom a long time either in a greenhouse or a conservatory, and will 
keep fresh for a considerable period in a warm room. It is advisable, however, 
