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without any of the old scarred remains of other generations, it being 
deciduous. Those having plants should immediately take them in hand, 
and top-dress or repot, as required. Well-drained pots and a compost of 
two parts of loam to one of peat, with a little leaf mould and sand, should 
be used, potting them in the same way as one would a clump of lily-of-the- 
valley. When completed, stand ina cool place on a moist bottom, and 
water sparingly until such time as it may be assumed that the new roots 
have penetrated the new material. The plants may be stood outside the 
whole of the summer, taking care to give water when wanted, and as soon 
as frosts are imminent take the pots in and lay them under a stage ina 
Cool house. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE first meeting of the year was held at the Drill Hall, James Street, 
Westminster, on January 12th, when there was a very good display of 
Orchids, which, however, had to be examined by gas-light, owing to the 
presence of a thick dark fog during the greater part of the day. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent a 
small group of very fine Orchids, including a splendid plant of Cypripedium 
X Leeanum superbum with over twenty flowers, a well-bloomed C. insigne 
Sanderianum, C. X Madame de Curte, the handsome Phaio-calanthe x 
Sedeni, the brilliant Calanthe x Baron Schréder, a pale yellow form of 
Odontoglossum crispum, and the prettily-spotted O.c. Evelina. A Silver 
Flora Medal was given to Odontoglossum crispum Stevensii, a finely-grown 
plant with a spike of fifteen large and handsomely-blotched flowers, and an 
Award of Merit to Cattleya Loddigesii superba, a large and handsome form. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), received an 
Award of Merit for a very striking Peruvian Mormodes called M. badium 
(Rolfe) var. luteum, bearing two spikes of deep yellow flowers, the type 
being of a red-purple shade. He also received a Botanical Certificate for 
Bulbophyllum Dayanum, a remarkable species with ciliate sepals, which we 
have only met with once or twice before during recent years. 
F. A. Bevan, Esq., Trent Park, Barnet (gr. Mr. Lees), received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a very fine group of Odontoglossums, including some 
splendid examples of O. Pescatorei, and a large and well-flowered plant of 
' Cypripedium insigne in the centre. 
H. Greenwood, Esq., Highfield, Haslingden, Lancashire, received an 
Award of Merit for a handsome hybrid called Cypripedium X Lilian Green- 
wood, derived from C. bellatulum ¢ and C. barbatum Warneri ¢, and thus 
a variety of C. x Richmanii. 
