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fibre added. The pots must be well drained, and the compost kept fairly 
dry until the roots have entered the new material. 
OpoNnTOGLOssuMs.—O. grande, O. Insleayi, O. Williamsianum, and 
others of the succulent rooting section will now be at rest, and will require 
little water at the roots until growth commences. For the Columbian 
species, with the numerous hybrids, also Odontiodas and other plants 
which succeed under similar conditions, the remarks made last month are 
still applicable. 
Oncipiums which have flowered, and have now commenced to grow 
and produce roots, may be repotted, should they be in need of it. These 
plants resent a sour compost, so that small pots or pans make the best 
receptacles, and should the compost be decomposed it is best to renew it. 
A similar compost to that used for Odontoglossums is suitable. 
MASDEVALLIAS.—M. tovarensis will now be starting into growth, and 
the present is a suitable time to repot any specimens that are in need of 
new rooting material. A compost of clean fibre and sphagnum moss in 
equal parts is suitable for this and others ofthe small-growing Masdevallias. 
The quaint-flowering M. Chimera section may also have attention at this 
season, using the same material. They should in every case be grown in 
baskets, as their flowers are produced in a downward direction. They 
delight in the temperature of the Intermediate house at this season, but 
during hot weather are best removed to the Cool house. 
GENERAL REMARKS.—Insect pests increase rapidly at this season of the 
year, if allowed to go unmolested, therefore every means possible should be 
taken toeradicate them, it being much easier to destroy them now than at 
a later period when other work is most pressing. Admit air on all favour- 
able occasions, give water whenever they require it, and wait patiently for 
the plants to commence their season’s growth. Under such treatment all 
will be well, but attempts to force plants into premature growth will in the 
end be disastrous, as nature will not be coerced. 
CymMBIDIUM Sypit.—A flower of a pretty hybrid, derived from 
Cymbidium eburneum X Pauwelsii, is sent from the collection of G. 
Hamilton Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh Woods, Bristol, by Mr. Coningsby: 
It has cream-white sepals and petals, the former well suffused with rose at 
the back, and a rosy lip, with short red lines, arranged in a zone, in front. 
This is said to be the first of the batch to flower, the spike bearing two 
flowers, but several others are showing for bloom, some having four buds, 
and their appearance suggests a good deal of variation. Some of the plants 
show more of the C. eburneum influeuce. lt willbe noticed, at pp. 43, 44: 
that Messrs. Hassall & Co. have already flowered the same cross, and that 
one of the seedlings, called var. sulphureum, has light yellow flowers. 
