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entertained they should on no account be hurried into bloom by placing 
the plants in strong heat. The temperature of the Cattleya house will suit 
them all, excepting the latter, which usually remains in the warm house 
throughout the year. A trifle moister condition at the root should prevail 
whilst developing and carrying their blooms, afterwards reverting to bao 
former practice of only giving enough water to prevent or check shrivelling. 
D. aureum commenced flowering last month, and individual plants ve 
continue to come on into bloom throughout the winter. This species is a 
very unsatisfactory one to deal with, the winter, or resting period, proving 
such a troublous time to its being, for healthy, well-grown bulbs will then 
rot off at the base without any apparent cause. No doubt it loves strong 
heat at all times, also abundance of light, and, unfortunately for it and us, 
we can only supply the former. D. Jamesianum—not the short-bulbed form, 
D. infundibulum, which is often known under the above name—is no* 
flowering, its blooms being a miniature reproduction of those of ct 
formosum. It grows well at the cool end of the Cattleya house when it 1s 
always kept in a moist condition. 
Asa last piece of advice I must urge the necessity of removing the spikes 
of Phalznopsis immediately (or before) the last flower has burst from the 
bud state. It is probably due in a great measure to this course of action 
that our plants prove so amenable to cultivation, for we—when the fog 1s 
not beforehand with us—cut the spikes off very early in their career, and 
place them in water, and the undeveloped flower buds usually unfold them- 
selves in this condition almost as well as they would on the plant. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND 
ORCHID SOCIETY. 
AT the meeting of this Society held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, 
on November 4th, there was a fine display of Orchids, the awards 
numbering seven First-class Certificates, 16 Awards of Merit, and three 
Cultural Certificates. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens); 
staged a very nice group, to which a Vote of Thanks was 
accorded. Noticeable in this group were Cypripedium x Leeanum 
giganteum, C. Charlesworthii marginatum, C. xX Leeanum virginale, and 
Odontoglossum X Andersonianum, all of which received Awards of Merit. 
There was also a very well-grown plant of Cypripedium x Arthurianum, 
which received a Cultural Certificate, and several showy and well-flower ed 
plants of Cattleya labiata. : 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Hay), showed a mag” 
