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deservedly awarded. It is probably a question of providing suitable 
treatment, and the method followed is described by Mr. Rogers. The 
compost consists of about equal parts of peat and loam, with a good 
sprinkling of tufa broken up to about the size of peas, with the dust also 
included. The pots are also drained with tufa, and a few -heads ot 
sphagnum are pricked into the compost after potting. The plants are 
grown in the same house as C. insigne, and are watered freely during the 
summer, and syringed in the afternoon during hot weather. Mr. Wrigley’s 
remark that the plants are pictures of health is fully borne out by the 
photograph, and their continued success must be particularly gratifying in 
view of the previous history of the species. 
Mr. Woodall, to whom reference is made above, has’ the good 
fortune to be able to grow it in the open air at Nice, and finds that it 
thrives as well as C. insigne, at the foot of an olive tree, with only some 
sheltering shrubs to screen the plants from summer suns and winter frosts. 
As this was after five years’ experience the success of the treatment should 
be well assured. Probably the conditions described approximate more 
nearly to those of its native home than those under which it is sometimes 
placed in our collections. 
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RoyaL HorTICULTURAL. 
he usual fortnightly meeting was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on October 12th, when there was 4 
good display of Orchids for the season, and the awards consisted of five 
medals, one Award of Merit, one Seedling Commendation, and one Cultural 
Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chait), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, W. Bolton, S. W. Flory, A. Dye, 
W. P. Bound, W. H. Hatcher, H. G. Alexander, W. Cobb, T. Armstrong, 
A. McBean, J. Charlesworth, Pantia Ralli, C. H. Curtis, R. A. Rolfe, and 
Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
Dr. Miguel Lacrose, Roehampton (gr. Mr. Creswell), received a Silver 
Banksian Medal for a group of two dozen well-grown plants of Odonto- 
glossum grande, which were arranged in-a setting of maiden-hair fern, 
making a very effective display. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J- Davis); 
sent a few good things, including Cattleya Venus Fowler’s var., bronzy 
yellow with a magenta-crimson, Iris-like lip, a good plant of Odontonia 
brugensis var. Eileen, Leliocattleya Haroldiana Monkholme var., a large 
