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CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM.-THE 2ESCHYNANTHUS AS A WALL PLANT. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM. 
f F all tropical Lady’s Slippers this is one 
of the most distinct and charming. It 
is quite a gem in its way ; the pure 
whiteness of the neatly rounded upper 
sepal with its central streak of claret colour is 
very pleasing. There is also some 
It is just now one of the choicest of all 
Orchids in bloom here, although by no means 
so gorgeous as is Cattleya labiata in flower 
beside it. We find that it enjoys a compost 
of loam, fibre, sphagnum, and crocks on a 
well-drained bottom, and like all other Cypri- 
CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 
claret contrasted with white on the staminode, pedes it luxuriates in partial shade and copious 
and the crisped petals and neatly rounded moisture overhead when growing.—F. W. B., 
pouch add to the charm of this dainty flower. Colletje Botanic Garden, Dublin. 
THE iESCHYNANTHUS AS A WALL PLANT. 
many fine species of /Eschynanthus 
rhich were common in plant stoves 
ome twenty or thirty years since, are 
low too seldom seen in cultivation; 
yet there are few things more strikingly beau¬ 
tiful. They are not exactly what may be called 
exhibition plants—that is, they do not quite 
adapt themselves to the habits required in, or 
the conditions allotted to plants grown mainly 
for show purposes ; and hence perhaps one of 
the reasons for their being neglected. They 
are not exactly decorative plants in the sense 
in which that term is generally used, that is to 
say, plants to be grown on in quantities to 
blossom and to die or be cast aside, or per¬ 
haps to furnish a supply of flowers for cutting ; 
