Last spring some one wrote to the Gardeners' Monthly, concerning Cypripedium insigne having two flowers on one spike. This year we have two spikes of C. Spicereanum, and three spikes of C. Harrisianum bearing two flowers on a spike, and all large fine blooms. The Spicerianum here does remarkably well; small plants in four-inch pots having five and six fine large blooms upon them, and one plant in a seven-inch pot, has a dozen flowers now open. At the time I am writing (December 2d), we have sixty-seven fully expanded blooms, which together with C. niveum, Lawrenceanum, Stoneanum, and Harrisianum, with about two dozen Phalaenopsis amablis, a Vanda Sanderiana with a spike of eight flowers, a dozen and a half spikes of Calanthe Veitchii, vestita and vestita lutea, give Mr. De Witt Smith's East India house quite a lively appearance.