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In order that accurate results may be arrived at, and to facilitate 
comparisons and deductions, cards will be supplied on application, for 
each exhibit. Exhibitors are particularly requested to apply for these 
cards, and to fill them up accurately and legibly beforehand, as the utility 
of the Conference will largely depend upon this being carried out. 
This programme may, of course, be somewhat modified according to 
circumstances, but the meeting promises to be the most important event 
in the Society’s year. The papers already announced promise to be 
of unusual interest, and hybrids now occupy such a prominent position 
in gardens that a considerable Exhibition may be anticipated. 
CULTURE OF EPIDENDRUMS. 
A CORRESPONDENT writes asking that we will describe briefly in the pages 
of the Review the treatment for Epidendrum osmanthum (Godseffianum), 
Hanburyi, radicans, and allied species, and this we have much pleasure in 
doing, for these plants are deserving of more attention than they sometimes 
receive. The two former belong to the pseudobulbous section of the genus, 
the one being Brazilian, introduced with Cattleya labiata, the other 
Mexican. Like E. atropurpureum they may be grown in the Cattleya or 
Mexican house, on blocks or in pots, the latter being preferable. The pots 
should be well drained, and the compost should consist of fibrous peat and 
sphagnum, pressed firmly about the plant. They like plenty of water when 
growing and if on blocks should during warm weather be moistened 
daily with the syringe, and even when at rest should not be allowed to 
become dry. They require plenty of light, and succeed best suspended 
from the roof, and only shaded during hot bright sunshine. Care should 
be taken in potting to disturb them as little as possible, and not to damage 
the roots, for they appear not to like the process. As in the case of 
Cattleyas, efforts should be made to induce good growths, and then to 
mature them properly, which will stimulate them to bloom at the proper 
season. FE, radicans has long reed-like stems, several feet high, and 
rooting all the way up. It should therefore be placed in a pot of moderate 
size, and may be trained on a trellis or on the roof of the house. In other 
respects it agrees with the preceding as to treatment. Having no pseudo- 
bulbs it is important that the plant should not be allowed to become dry, or 
the leaves will shrivel and drop off before their time. When well grown it 
flowers almost continually. Most of the Epidendrums may be successfully 
grown with Cattleyas. 
