THE GARDEN ALBUM AND REVIEW. 
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THE LONG LOST ORCHID. 
A curious fact has just come to light in 
connection with Cypripedium Fairrieanum. 
This orchid, which had become almost extinct 
in cultivation, was suddenly re-discovered last 
Cypripedium Fairrieanum 
(Slightly reduced). 
year, and plants were sent to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. Importations have since come 
to hand, and although £1,000 would have been 
probably paid with pleasure this time last year 
for a small specimen, it is now possible to 
secure a good plant for a guinea or two. 
The curious fact alluded to is that C. 
Fairrieanum has been confounded with C. 
hirsutissimum, a plant quite distinct from it in 
every way. In the last issue of the “ Orchid 
Review,” an illustration is given from a 
painting made by Miss Fairrie in October, 
1855, and the plant depicted purports to be 
“Adam’s Fairrieanum.” A glance at the 
drawing at once shows it to be C. hirsutissimum, 
and not C. Fairrieanum at all. A still more 
curious fact is that while the whole world went 
into raptures over the true Fairrieanum, Mr. 
Adam Fairrie, after whom it was named, 
attached no particular value to it. Our illus¬ 
tration represents a plant of C. Fairrieanum 
on a somewhat reduced scale. The chief 
peculiarity of the flowers consists in the 
upturned petals, which, with the staminode, 
give one the impression of a buffalo’s head 
and horns. 
White Hippeastrums. —The gorgeous glow 
of the Hippeastrum has been at last softened 
down effectually into a pure or almost pure white 
form under the art of the hybridiser. Some fine 
plants were recently shown at the R.H.S., 
Westminster, by Mrs. W. A. Burns, North 
Mymms Park, Hatfield (gardener, Mr. C. R. 
Fielder), and attracted universal attention 
owing to the purity of the blossoms and the 
vigorous growth of the plants. Most of the 
flowers were white or creamy in colour, but a 
few show traces of green at the base, while a 
tinge of rose or crimson struggled through in 
one or two cases. 
Growth Stopped by the Weather. 
Mr. De B. Crawshay writes that some plants 
of Lilium auratum in a south border had 
grown 6 inches above ground by February 1st. 
By April 3 however, that is in the course of 
two months, only 3 inches extra growth was 
made, owing to the bleak cold weather. Since 
then the plants have been roasted and frozen 
by turns. 
Freesia Tubergeni. —This charming form 
has been introduced by Mr. C. G. van Tubergen, 
Haarlem, and reminds one of the rare F. Arm- 
strongi. The flowers are violet in colour, with 
a white throat, having a bright yellow blotch 
at the extreme end. It is a decided acquisition, 
and has been obtained by crossing F. refracta 
alba with F. Armstrongi. 
Larix Potanini, Gard. Chron., March 24th, 
1906, 178 (fig.). This new Chinese Larch is 
also known as L. thibetica. Mr. Wilson, who 
has introduced it to Messrs. Veitch’s nursery, 
says it grows from 20 to 60 ft. high in its native 
place at an altitude of 7,500 to 11,000 ft. The 
young shoots are orange-yellow and slightly 
hairy, becoming smooth and ashen grey with 
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