. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . rple spotting of C. con-color, being by far the finest yellow Cypripediumof its class. C. x Ville de Paris and C. x Mostyn are two very handsome hybridspeculiar to the Westfield collection; and a veryrobust specimen of C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum,grown much cooler than is usual, conveys alesson. All the forms of C. Lawrenceanum, in-cluding the finely-coloured C. L. hackbridgense,thrive admirably here along with C. insigneSanderae, C. i. Sanderianum, and other tolerablycool-house varieties. Mr. H
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . rple spotting of C. con-color, being by far the finest yellow Cypripediumof its class. C. x Ville de Paris and C. x Mostyn are two very handsome hybridspeculiar to the Westfield collection; and a veryrobust specimen of C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum,grown much cooler than is usual, conveys alesson. All the forms of C. Lawrenceanum, in-cluding the finely-coloured C. L. hackbridgense,thrive admirably here along with C. insigneSanderae, C. i. Sanderianum, and other tolerablycool-house varieties. Mr. Hopkins, the gardener X Haroldiana, the true La^lia Gouldiana,L. anceps Schroderse var. Theodora, for which anAward of Merit was recently awarded; and othergood forms of L. anceps; Cattleya amethysto-glossa Dom Pedro, &c. The raising of new hybrids of the best pro-curable parentage is also in active progress,and some promising hybrids are already OB. Epidendrum (Diacrium) finely - flowered plant of this handsomeOrchid, which Messrs. Jas. Cypher & Sons,. Fig. 154.—single flower of iris tectorum : colour lilac, falls deeply pcrple-spottedwith a white-toothed crest. (see p. 354). Orchids is reducing it to a vanishing-point, theproprietor excusing himself and the material bysaying, It wants properly handling. We canuse it safely, but our customers cannot, and we•cannot tell them how to do so. They complainthat plants grown with a proportion of leaf-soil?do not maintain their vigour. Mr. Wellesleys collection is remarkable for therare Cypripediums which it contains, and it has?one of the most complete sets of hybrids, bothprimary and secondary, of C. Fairieanum. Thespecies and hybrids of the C. niveum, C. concolor,and C. bellatulum sections are also speciallywell represented; the latest novelty, C. x Wel-lesleyanum, apparently a cross between C. bella-tulum album and C. concolor, and with yellow at Westfield, is a great believer in dividing theacti
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