284 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
If newly imported Orchids are purchased during the autumn and winter, 
they should be given every encouragement to establish themselves quickly, 
two essentials being a good position and a fair supply of moisture. A good 
plan is to put them into small pots quite temporarily, adding a little 
sphagnum round their roots to hold them firm. The moss should be kept 
moist, and they will soon commence to root into it. In the following 
spring, when nicely established, they may be permanently potted up into 
whatever receptacles are the most suitable. They then take to the new 
compost while it is quite fresh; which is better than potting them up 
directly they are received. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTCULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE August meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society seldom produce @ 
big display of Orchids, but at the one held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham 
Gate, Westminster, on August 14tk, these plants were even fewer thas a 
usual, numbering only five, from four different exhibitors. The Orchid 1 
Committee was represented by: H. J. Veitch, Esq. (in the chair), and 
Messrs. H. J. Chapman, De B. Crawshay, J. Douglas, J. G. Fowler, E. 
Hill, J. Jaques, H. Little, A. H. Smee, H. A. Tracy, and W. H. Young. 
E. Bostock, Esq., Tixall Lodge, Stafford (gr. Mr. Gill), showed a good 
Cattleya Harrisoniana violacea, bearing nine richly-coloured flowers. 
Sir William Marriott, Bart., Down House, Blandford (gr. Mr. Denny), 
showed the handsome Lzlio-cattleya x Clonia (L.-c. X elegans X C. 
Warscewiczii.) 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
showed the pretty natural hybrid Cattleya x Patrocinii, and C. x Warnero 
Bowringiana, the latter having rather small, pale purple flowers, with 4 
darker-coloured throat to the lip. 
M. Florent Claes, Brussels, sent a rather curious Odontoglossum called 
O. crispum De Sadeleri. The flower is nearly circular in shape, and the 
segments whitish in the centre, tinged with faint yellow at the margin, and 
spotted with brown. 
AT the meeting held on August 28th, Orchids were rather more numerous 
than on the previous occasion, and of great merit, no less than six awards 
being made, namely, one First-class Certificate, three Awards of Merit, and 
two Cultural Commendations. The members of the Orchid Committee 
present were :—H. J. Veitch, Esq., in the chair, and Messrs. H. J. Chap 
man, De B. Crawshay, J. Gurney Fowler, E. Hill, H. Little, H. M. 
Pollett, F. Sander, A. H. Smee, F. J. Thorne, H. A. Tracy, W. H. Young; 
and J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.). 
