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from the tubers, and when this is about two inches long they may be 
repotted. A suitable compost consists of sandy peat broken into small 
pieces, sphagnum moss and limestone. They grow well in shallow pans, 
and several tubers may be placed in them according to size. The off-shoots 
which are removed from the larger tubers may be grown on in small pans ; 
these in time will make tubers of flowering size. Unless pots or pans are 
overcrowded with young growth, Disas need only be repotted every second 
year. With cool, moist, shady treatment these plants can be kept clean 
from insect pests such as thrip, which are very partial to the succulent 
young growths. When so attacked, do not fumigate, as Disas resent this 
treatment, but dip them in some safe insecticide at frequent intervals. 
Nanopes Mepus#.—This intermediate house Orchid is most inter- 
esting, if not very pretty. The plant itself is attractive, apart from the 
flowers, which are of rather an unusual colour, but with a large fringed lip. 
The stems are drooping and thickly clothed with short distichous light 
green leaves. In consequence of this drooping habit it should be grown 
suspended in small pans or baskets. Now is a good time to repot or top- 
dress with sphagnum moss and polypodium fibre, intermixed with coarse 
sand or finely-broken crocks. When growing well these plants enjoy good 
supplies of moisture at the roots. 
The cooler weather has enabled the grower to go thoroughly through his 
plants with ease and comfort, and give them the necessary cleaning and 
staking which is required at this season. The growths of Cattleyas and 
Dendrobiums need some such support and should be temporally secured to 
neat sticks; when growth is finished and ripened they may finally be tied 
to give the plants a neat appearance. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
June 27th, 1922. 
EMBERS of the Orchid Committee present :—Sir Jeremiah Colman, 
Bart. (in the chair), Prince Tadashige Shimadzu, Messrs. J. 
O’Brien (hon. sec.), F. J. Hanbury, H. T. Pitt, Stuart Low, J. Wilson 
Potter, Pantia Ralli, E. R. Ashton, A. Dye, Gurney Wilson, F. K. Sander, 
5. W. Flory and H. J. Kaye. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
To Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. for a fine specimen plant of Coelogyne 
burfordiensis (pandurata X asperata) with seven arching spikes “aed 
numerous greenish-yellow flowers, the lip having some blackish markings. 
It was originally raised by Mr. W. H. White in the Burford collection, and 
received an Award of Merit, R.H.S. May 23rd, 1911, when exhibited by 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 
