These plants are very easily grown into good specimens, usually thriving best 
in small hanging baskets, but this species does best upon a block of wood, which 
enables its long leaves to hang down in a natural position, and the flower-spike 
being pendent, it is also seen to the best advantage when grown in this manner. 
But for the other species, if the baskets are well drained, they may be planted in 
good brown peat-fibre and chopped sphagnum moss in about equal proportions. 
They will do well in the growing season in the East Indian house, as they require 
a great amount of heat, and also a fair share of water to their roots, and moisture 
in the atmosphere. The species are all deciduous, and after the bulbs are nicely 
finished off, the leaves will fall away, when water should be entirely withheld and the 
temperature reduced, the cool end of the Cattleya house being amply hot enough, and 
here the bulbs are not likely to suffer from drought. After re-potting in spring, the 
young growths first begin to start, and this is the only time one requires to be careful 
in watering, in order to avoid the water remaining in the young and tender shoots, 
which is apt to rot. them; and as the spike mostly appears with the young growth, 
or when that is about half-made, the flowers get affected in a like manner. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHID Commirrer (continued from under Plate 455). 
A Cultural Commendation to F. W. Nixon, Esq., Edward Street, Leek, for a 
fine well-flowered plant of Odontoglossum maculatum, bearing four spikes. 
Silver Floral Medal to. Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, for a group 
of Orchids. | 
Silver Banksian Medal to Messrs. Pitcher and Manda, Hextable, for a group 
of Orchids. 3 
Marco 22nd. To E. Miller Mundy, Esq., Shipley Hall, Derby, First Class 
Certificate for Dendrobium Phalenopsis Schroderianum, a very large dark-flowered 
form. 
To F. W. Moore, Esq., Curator Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, First 
Class Certificate for Moorea wrorata, a new genera of Orchids, which has a stout 
upright spike, bearing large flowers; sepals and petals white at base, broadly tipped 
with chestnut-brown; lip three-lobed, yellow and white, dotted with purple spots. 
To E. Moon, Esq., Cassiobridge, Herts, an Award of Merit for Dendrobium 
infundibulum (Cassiobridge var.), a fine form, having fine broad sepals and petals, 
marked as in the typical plant. 
To E. Miller Mundy, Esq., Shipley Hall, Derby, an Award of Merit for 
Dendrobium Phalenopsis Schroderianum delicatum, a charming form, with pale flowers. 
To F. W. Moore, Esq., Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, a Botanical 
Certificate for Megaclinium Jalcatum, an old and curious Orchid, remarkable for its 
long, flattened flower stalk, having a central row of small flowers seated along each side. 
To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, a Botanical Certificate for Epiden- 
drum’ Lauchianum, a species with long drooping racemes, densely laden with small 
yellow and brown flowers. 
(Continued under Plate 457.) 
