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be considered safe, always with the exception of insect pests. Thrips will 

 soon make work with the tiny plants, and must be kept down, but I 

 consider the greatest pest of all is a small black midge, which lays its eggs 

 in the compost, and the grub when hatched out feeds on all it can find in the 



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pots." For other details we must refer the reader to the original article 

 {Orch. Rev. 1903, pp. 41-43, fig. 10). 



Odontoglossum has also been united with the allied genera, Cochlioda 

 and Miltonia, yielding the hybrids known under the names of Odontioda 



