284 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CULTURE OF GALEANDRA DEVONIANA. 
In your last number (page 226) you speak of the difficulty of maintaining 
this species in health, and ask if any correspondent has overcome it. I lost 
all my Galeandras until I tried growing G. Devoniana on the edge of a small 
tank used for watering the plants in the East Indian house, where it gets 
plenty of heat and the vapour rising from the surface of the water. There 
it flowers well, and throws up strong healthy growth year by year. With it 
are also Diacrium bicornutum, Dendrobium formosum giganteum, and 
Phaius Humblotii, which do equally well. The smaller Galeandras, such as 
G. nivalis and C. D’Escagnolleana, I grow on small branches suspended 
against the north wall of the East Indian house, which necessarily faces 
south, and which is overgrown with Vanilla planifolia, Epidendrum radicans, 
and some soft-wooded stove plants, and is always reeking with damp. 
Previously I had only tiny pieces remaining, but here, amongst moisture, 
heat and shade, they have grown splendidly and are constantly in flower. 
I see that Miltonia Phalenopsis is considered to be uncertain. With 
me it grows like a weed, in baskets suspended at the south end of the 
Cattleya house, where it gets abundance of light and air. 
H. J. Ross. 
Florence. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
THE display of Orchids at the seek Horticultural Society's meeting at 
the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on July 23rd, was smaller than 
usual, but included several interesting things, notably Dendrobium specio- 
sissimum, in much better condition than at the last meeting, a new hybrid 
Phalznopsis, and some exceptionally well-grown Disa grandiflora. The 
remarkable old Lelia Digbyana, with its deeply fringed lip, on this occasion 
received the award of a First-class Certificate. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), sent plants of the charming little Habenaria rhodochila (of which 
an account is given at page 242), and Epidendrum alatum, a Botanical 
Certificate being given to the former. 
W. C. Walker, Esq., Percy Lodge, Winchmore Hill (gr. Mr.. Cragg), 
exhibited Cypripedium Godefroyz and Lelia Digbyana, the latter receiving 
a First-class Certificate. 
F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, sent Bulbo- 
phyllum Lobbii var. Colossus, a form with very large flowers, Aérides 
Lobbii, Epidendrum paniculatum, Mormodes pardinum, and Maxillaria 
Hubschii, like a small edition of M. grandiflora. Botanical Certificates 
were awarded to the two latter. 
