We do not know how many varieties there are in cultivation of this fine and most useful winter-flowering Orchid; but there are, at least, two varieties, and one of them is very much superior to the other. It is more robust in its growth, and in colour much more brilliant. The pale and inferior variety is easily known, even by the shape of the bulbs, every one of which has the peculiarity of being very much contracted just about its middle - so much so, in fact, that it is very easily broken through. Growers who happen to have only this fiddle-shaped variety should try and procure the other, for it is much finer. We had a considerable number of the inferior kind at one time - indeed the major part of our stock was of it - but have entirely discarded it, and grow only the darker variety, that has no contraction in its bulbs.