18 THE: ORCHID REVIEW: [JANUARY, 1922. 
MILTONIA VEXILLARIA AND M. BLEAUANA.—These with their various 
hybrids are now growing rapidly. The plants that were potted last August 
will be rooting freely, and will require a slight increase of water at the roots 
from now onwards until the pseudobulbs are completed. Carefully watch 
for thrip, and destroy them by dipping the leaves and young growths in 
diluted nicotine, two ounces to one gallon of soft water. Miltonias, as they 
grow, are apt to get their leaves folded, and these, if not quickly released, 
will often injure the growth permanently, and cause an_ unsightly 
appearance. 
EULOPHIELLA ELIZABETHA AND THE HYBRID E. ROLFEI are now com- 
pleting their growth in the warmest house, and will soon be pushing flower 
spikes from the base of the new bulbs. The former is best grown in baskets 
with a compost of osmunda fibre and sphagnum moss, whilst E. Rolfei, 
with its long rhizomes which tends to grow more or less upwards, should be 
grown on a raft of teak wood placed in a pot or pan. The young growths 
are subject to attacks of thrip, which soon disfigure their beautiful foliage, 
but when dipped weekly in the above solution of nicotine they will be kept 
quite free from this pest. 
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ORCHIDS AT THE BRISTOL SHOW. 
Nov. 9th and 10th, 1921. 
ee Bristol Show has always been noted for the excellence of its 
Chryanthemums and miscellaneous exhibits, but at this event—the 
first since 1913—the general remark was that the Orchids had never been 
surpassed, and were a very great feature of the exhibition. 
Messrs. Cypher and Sons put up an excellent bank of Orchids, 
including Vanda coerulea, Dendrobium Phaleenopsis Schroderianum 
splendens, probably the best known form of this old species. Platyclinis 
latifolia, a specimen Maxillaria grandiflora with twelve flowers, 
Skinneri and L. aromatica. 
condition, as 
Lycaste 
Numerous Cypripediums were in excellent 
also were Cattleya Bellona and other hybrids, Masdevallia 
corniculata, and the rare and quaint M. nidifica were very interesting. 
Messrs. A. J. Keeling and Sons staged a well arranged group, the 
prominent feature being a very fine richly-coloured Cypripedium hybrid 
between Gaston Bulteel and Earl Roberts. 
C. insigne Sandere 
Messrs. Sanders had a fine group centred by a magnificent plant of 
Cymbidium Tracyanum ; close to it were a yellow and crimson variety of 
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