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Its flowers are also particularly liable to injury by fogs, which in urban 
areas are rather prevalent at the time it is in bloom. The best means of 
counteracting this is to get it to start and mature early, and thus open its 
blooms before the foggy season sets in. The flowers vary greatly in colour, 
from bright purple, through various shades of lilac and blush, down to 
white, mostly with darker markings on the lip, but in the variety hololeuca 
the purple is entirely eliminated, resulting in a chaste and beautiful albino. 
The plant should be grown in baskets, suspended in a light position in the 
warmest house, and when the growths are mature it should receive a good 
rest in a drier position in the same house. It should not be removed to a 
cool position when at rest, as it is unnatural to the species, and experience 
has shown it to be injurious. When grown under such conditions we have 
seen it producing its beautiful spikes in profusion, and as these are very 
useful for cutting it is a plant that repays a little extra attention. It is a 
native of northern Queensland and some of the islands in and near the 
Torres Straits, one of the best-known being Timor laut, where it was found 
by Mr. H. O. Forbes some time prior to its introduction in quantity. A 
fine exhibit of D. Phalaenopsis, and its charming varieties Rothschildianum 
and album, from the collection of W. R. Lee, Esq., is recorded at page/234. 
ke SOULE TIES, Lae aC 
RoyaL HorTICULTURAL. 
HE usual fortnightly meeting was held at the London Scottish Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on September. 11th, when 
there was a good display of Orchids, including three medal groups, and 
Awards of Merit were given to two choice Leliocattleyas. 
Orchid Committee present :—Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in « the 
Chair), J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, Arthur Dye, C.. J. Lucas, 
Gurney Wilson, J.. Charlesworth, Walter Cobb, F. K. Sander, S. W. 
Flory, J. E. Shill, Stuart H. Low, R. A. Rolfe, J. Wilson Potter, T. 
Armstrong; F. J. Hanbury, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. » 
L#&LIOcATTLEYA BRonzE-KiNG (luminosa X Anaconda).—A handsome 
hybrid, the flowers being large and of fine shape, with broad, orange-buff 
sepals and petals, and a magenta-crimson lip, with deep yellow veining in 
the throat, and the margin lilac. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & 
Brown. 
L2&LIOCATTLEYA COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. (C. Iris X Lc. Mrs. Evelyn 
Norrie).—A charming thing, the flower having broad, citron-yellow sepals 
and petals, a claret-crimson lip, veined with yellow at the base, and the 
