fringed and undulated. In addition the throat is bright rich yellow, veined with 
lines of crimson-purple. It blooms in the spring and summer months, and if care 
is taken to avoid sprinkling them with water from the syringe, they will last a 
long time in perfection. To ensure this some growers remove their plants to a 
house specially set apart for their flowering specimens, but we do not approve of 
moving them after the flowers have expanded, for there is sure to be some slight 
difference either in temperature or in the atmospheric moisture which materially 
affects the flowers, and causes them to fade prematurely. We therefore strongly 
advise growers to allow not only Cattleyas but other Orchids to remain and 
flower in the house in which they open, if their beauties are desired to be 
prolonged. 
This Cattleya, like all the varieties of C. Mossie, requires a good amount of 
brisk warmth during the growing season, and also a liberal amount of moisture in 
the atmosphere, but the water to their roots must be given cautiously and with 
eare, for if too great a quantity is given it will have a very injurious effect upon 
the plant. Naturally these plants, although subject to a great deal of moisture, 
have nothing about their roots to cause dampness to lie, as occurs with a plant 
which under cultivation is potted in peat fibre. We find that so long as the soil 
retains moisture very little or no fresh water is necessary; neither can we agree 
with those who use the syringe for sprinkling Cattleyas overhead, a practice which 
leads to the loss of young shoots frequently. Although these plants do as a 
matter of course get a great quantity of rain upon them in the wet season, they 
have greater facilities for getting rid of it, either in their growths not being so erect 
as they are in an artificial state, or through there being greater activity in the 
atmosphere. The pots must be well drained, and the plant should be placed upon 
a cone-like mound of good brown peat fibre, with a little chopped sphagnum moss 
added, and all insect pests should be carefully looked after and washed off. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHID CoMMITTEE oF THE RoyaL HORTICULTURAL 
SocreTy, IN THE SEcoND QUARTER OF THE YEAR 1892. 
Aprit 12th. To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., First Class Certificate for 
Cypripedium Lawrebell, a cross between C. Lawrenceanum and C.  bellatulum, 
having tessellated foliage and fine large showy flowers; the dorsal sepal is of a 
rosy crimson, with a white border, and a tinge of green at the base; the petals 
dotted and spotted with a deep brown. It is a very handsome hybrid, and one 
of the first having C. bellatulum for a parent. a 
To Messrs. F. Sander and Co., a First Class Certificate for Cypripedium 
Chamberlainianum, a distinct and beautiful species, remarkable for its bright crimson 
Tip. . 
: (Continued under Plate 462.) 
