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472 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, Ig1t. 
with clean broken crocks. On these set the plant, and only use a very 
little soil, sufficient to cover the roots and to extend up to the base of the 
bulbs. It should consist of a mixture of polypodium fibre, oak leaves and 
sphagnum moss. These ingredients should be well mixed together, finely 
chopped up, and used in a damp state. Re-panning is usually needed every 
three years, and should be done when the new growth is about two inches 
in length. 
This Orchid must be kept heavily shaded throughout the year, and 
should never be subjected to a lower temperature than 60°: Fahr. at any 
season. For those who can, however, maintain this amount of heat, there 
does not exist a more floriferous and striking species. When.all the 
blossoms have expanded, it does no harm to place the plant for three weeks 
in a cooler house, and the flowers will remain much longer in perfection. 
Ccelogyne pandurata is not an expensive Orchid, a healthy plant of 
flowering size being procurable for half-a-guinea. Briefly its culture may 
be summed up as follows: Abundance of heat and moisture, and much 
shade. C. ALwyn Harrison. 
AWARDS OF THE R.H.S. COMMITTEES.—The following letter has been 
sent by the Council of the R.H.S. to the Chairman of Committees :— 
“Dear Sir,—I am desired by the Council to recall to the minds of the 
members of the committees the high merit which should be represented by 
all the Awards, Certificates, and Medals of the Society. It is probably to 
be expected that the number of Awards should increase slightly year by 
year, but there exists a constant danger of their too lavish bestowal. It 
should, therefore, be a matter for constant watchfulness that the relative 
standards of merit be fully maintained, and that none of the Medals, &c., 
should become depreciated by neglect in the use of the Award ranking 
below it. If, for example, the use of the Bronze Medal is allowed to lapse, 
t can only result in the equivalent depreciation of the next higher Awards, 
which, in turn, will have a tendency to fall out of use and depreciate those 
still higher; until at last little value would attach to even Gold Medals. 
The value attaching to each Medal can only be upheld by maintaining the 
appropriate value of the medal ranking below it, and so on in descending 
scale. The value attaching to the Society’s Bronze Medal is, therefore, the 
primary factor of the value which attaches to the highest Gold Medal, and 
whatever depreciation the Bronze Medal suffers, the Silver and Gold will 
inevitably reflect in their turn. The Council therefore urge the committees 
to make greater use of the Bronze Medals, regarding them as very 
honourable Awards suited to groups and collections which require some- 
thing more than. a mere ‘ Vote of Thanks.’—Faithfully yours, W. WILKS, 
Secretary.” 
