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with a most remarkable and unique style of growth, and very handsome flowers 
besides. 
The creeping flexuose rhizome is as thick as a quill, beset here and there with 
scales, and emitting numerous roots. The shaggy stems are erect, about a foot high, 
bearing a pair of sub-opposite rhomboid-ovate, repandly-undulate, and strongly 
plicate leaves. The flower is solitary and terminal, protected by a lanceolate bract, 
the lanceolate-acuminate perianth segments being of a greenish hue, speckled with 
reddish dots, while the drooping lip is whitish, suffused with pink. 
The New Plant Company state that this Cypripedium is of very easy culture. 
The soil found most suitable is a light sandy loam, and the plant should be kept 
rather dry in winter, and be watered freely while growing. This applies to pot- 
culture. Out-of-doors, in a prepared border, in a cool, shady spot, and which was 
never suffered to become dry during March and April, they have been found to 
succeed well.—T. Moore. 
CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 
S IXTEEN years have rolled away since, after a yet longer residence in the 
Midlands, I returned to the neighbourhood of London, and yielding to the 
force of circumstances I could not control, gave up—albeit most reluct- 
antly, and like Lot’s wife, with many a wistful look behind—-the cultivation 
of my favourite flowers, the Carnation and Pieotee. 
A slight mitigation of these untoward circumstances last spring enabled me to 
return to my cherished recreation, though on so small a scale that I should smile 
to describe myself a cultivator. Nevertheless, as I grew forty of the best varieties, 
or supposed to be the best varieties known, had the advantage of a visit to my 
friend Mr. Charles Turner’s collection at the Royal Nursery, Slough, w r as present 
on August 13th at the revived exhibition of the National Carnation and Pieotee 
Society at Manchester, and inspected one or two collections of the Yorkshire 
growers, I am assured, probably by over-partial friends, that a relation of my 
experience will be interesting; and therefore, Mr. Editor, with your kind per* 
mission, I will proceed to describe it. 
Sixteen years, half the life-time of a generation, is a large epoch in a human 
life, but a far more important period in the life of a Carnation or Pieotee, few 
varieties having stamina to carry them beyond twelve or fifteen years. Yet, 
upon my inquiry for my well-remembered favourites, I was greatly pleased to 
find Admiral Curzon, S.B., Dreadnought , S.B.,and Sir Joseph Paxton^ in the same 
class, yet lived, and not only lived, but maintained their pre-eminence almost 
undisputed. To these I added Premier , P.F., Squire Meynell , in the same class; 
John Bayley , S.F., and Sj)ortsman , S.F.; and not only were these varieties good, 
but, I am happy to say, they came in a character—save only for size, which was 
due to the thin, poor soil I alone could command—for quality and beauty of 
marking I had never seen surpassed. Jenny Lind , C.B., and Falconhridge , P.B., 
were also among my old favourites, but neither, alas ! retained the position which 
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