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achieve, but those who do their best at least deserve success. All insect 
and other pests, which at this season especially may do irreparable harm, 
must be diligently searched for and eradicated. A clean start means, in 
most cases, a clean ending. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held in the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on March 4th, when there was a fine display of Orchids, and 
the awards consisted of four medals, one First-class Certificate, six Awards 
of Merit and two Cultural Commendations. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
and Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, Sir Jeremiah 
Colman, Bart., J. S. Moss, Stuart Low, Gurney Wilson, F. Sander, R. G. 
Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, W. 
Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, W. P. Bound, J. E. 
Shill, H. G. Alexander, W. Bolton, de Barri Crawshay, W. H. White, A. 
Dye, S. W. Flory, and C. Cookson. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged an interesting group of rare species, including the handsome 
Zygopetalum rostratum, Acanthophippium bicolor, Bulbophyllum _bar- 
bigerum, Pleurothallis Grobyi, Cirrhopetalum picturatum, Dendrobium 
fusiforme with six racemes, and others. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Normanhurst, Rusper (gr. Mr. Salter), sent the 
handsome Odontoglossum Lawrenceanum Cobb’s var., with very large 
flowers, a fine Odontioda Bradshawiz, O. Cooksoniz The Gem and Cobb’s 
var., and Sophronitis grandiflora Cobb’s var. 
Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman); 
sent a very fine form of Odontioda Bradshawie with a spike of thirteen 
flowers. 
E. H. Davidson, Esq., Orchid Dene, Twyford, showed fine forms of 
Odontioda Bradshawiz, Charlesworthii, and Zephyr, Odontoglossum 
Twyford Gem (Rossii rubescens X formosum), a very pretty hybrid, having 
the sepals and petals spotted with dark red and the lip bright rose- 
purple, and Brassocattleya Dora (C. Trianz alba x B.-c. Veitchii Queen 
Alexandra), a very promising white flower with a greenish tinge on the 
sepals and lip. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent Odonto- 
glossum percultum var. Mrs. Goodson, a handsome variety, O. armain- 
villierense, and O. Captain Humphrey, of unrecorded parentage, but 
apparently partly derived from O. Uroskinneri. 
M. H. Graire, Amiens, France, sent ee eee Saturne 
