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Water should be very carefully applied after root disturbance, and until the 
young leaves are well advanced, for if kept too damp during this period” 
some of the old leaves may fall off. During such mild weather as we have 
experienced during this winter the Cool house will be found suitable for 
plants of this species, but in cold frosty weather it will be advisable to remove 
the plants to the Intermediate house. The present is also an excellent 
time to break up old plants or to afford additional root room to such 
Masdevallias as M. Chimera, Wallisii, Backhouseana, Houtteana, 
nycterina, bella, and others of that section. They should in every case be 
grown in baskets, as their flowers are produced in a downward direction. 
No crocks must be used for drainage. These plants will root in the same 
compost as M. tovarensis, and require the same temperature. When well 
established they delight in copious overhead waterings, which is always 
helpful in warding off the attacks of red spider, to which the leaves of all 
this section of Masdevallias are extremely liable. 
Ege SOCIETIES: Aes | 
RoyaAL HORTICULTURAL. 
HE first meeting of the new year was held at the Royal Horticultural 
Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on January 5th, and produced a 
moderate display of Orchids, including five medal groups, while one First- 
class Certificate, four Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation 
were given to choice things. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, W. Bolton, de Barri 
Crawshay, W. H. White, J. E. Shill, A. Dye, W. P. Bound, W. H. 
Hatcher, J. Cypher, W. Cobb, G. F. Moore, F. J. Hanbury, F. M. 
Ogilvie, A. McBean, T. Armstrong, R. G. Thwaites, S. Low, C. H. Curtis, 
R. A. Rolfe, Sir Harry J. Veitch, and Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Collier), showed 
two interesting Odontiodas, O. Othello (Odm. Othello xX Oda. gattonensis), 
most resembling the former in shape and colour, and another from Odm. 
crispum X Oda. gattonensis, most like a small sulphur yellow O. crispum, 
the scarlet of the original C. Noetzliana being eliminated. He also sent 
the handsome Cymbidium Queen of Gatton (C. Lady Colman X insigne). 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. — Davis), 
showed a flower of Cattleya Phyllis (Lueddemanniana Stanleyi xX 
Schreederze), soft rose-pink in colour, with broad, undulate petals and lip. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent Odonto- 
glossum Wiganianum Goodson’s var., and two pretty Odontiodas. 
