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coming method, but he emphasises the necessity of additional care in 



watering. 



Odontoglossums thrive and multiply in a way that they failed to do 

 before, and Mr. Young pointed out examples, and also turned some out of 

 the pots to show that the root action was satisfactory. It should be 

 remarked that many of them have been in leaf-mould for two years. 

 O. crispum and allied species were in thriving condition, while O. X Rolfese 

 and O. X spectabile were growing with remarkable vigour, the latter 

 carrying a raceme of n buds, while the latest pseudobulb was over five 

 inches long. A sturdy plant of Cochlioda Noetzliana had thirteen new 

 bulbs, against eleven last year, and only seven the year before. Oncidiums 

 also grow with increased vigour, and the same might be said of many 

 other inmates of the Cool department, which Mr. Young considers has 

 greatly benefited by the introduction of the new compost. Here were two 

 good pans of Pleione lagenaria, one with, the other without leaves, in the 

 compost, and, although the difference was less marked than in some cases, 

 yet the latter was second best. Here we noticed some good examples of 

 Laelia pumila and Dayana in flower, also Cochlioda vulcanica, Trichosma 

 suavis, Masdevallia X Hincksiana, varying from cream-white to buff- 

 yellow, according to the age of the flowers, M. Carderi, Oncidiums Forbesii r 

 incurvum, ornithorrhynchum, and other interesting things. Cymbidium 

 grandiflorum was throwing up five spikes, and several of C. Tracyanum 

 were beginning to push. 



The Phalamopsis house at Clare Lawn is always interesting, and here 

 the new compost is being tried. A plant of Phalsenopsis Schilleriana 

 imported last May was put straight into the new compost, and has since 

 developed some remarkably fine leaves. But still more interesting was an 

 old plant which was put into the new compost last April. Since then it 

 has developed two leaves, the best measuring a foot long by a shade under 

 four inches broad, and the other only slightly smaller, and not yet 

 mature. There was no imported vigour behind this plant, for it has been 

 in the collection ever since 1888. The plants here are generally good, and 

 are producing numbers of fine spikes. Several P. violacea were in bloom, 

 and Mr. Young pointed out that the flowers of this species are very 

 fragrant. Pescatorea Klabochorum and P. cerina were in flower, having 

 been in the collection twelve and thirteen years respectively. Chondro- 

 rhyncha Chestertoni had three buds, and Mr. Young has a nice batch of 

 species of this group (including Bollea, Warscewiczella, &c), which grow 

 almost like weeds in leaf-mould, and they keep on flowering almost 

 continually. The new Zygonisia X Rolfeana was throwing up a fine spike, 

 and the curious little Saccolabium calceolare was bearing three heads of 

 flowers. The Cypripedium group and Miltonia Roezlii also thrive well in 



