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Any. Cattleyas, Lzlias, or their many hybrids, which have passed out 
of flower may be repotted now, if required. Trim the plants with care, 
and do not set them too low in the new pot. The base of the bulbs should 
be half an inch above the rim of the pot. ' For soil use a mixture of Ar fibre 
and osmunda, with a few heads of sphagnum moss. Use these ingredients 
in a damp state, and pot moderately firmly. Any seedlings requiring a shift 
should be done now, before the weather gets too warm, otherwise they are 
apt to receive a check. Maintain a damp atmosphere in the house now on- 
wards until October sets in, as this is the period of maximum growth. 
SUGGESTED ADDITIONS. 
CATTLEYA HARRISONIANA.—For an amateur’s collection this is a very 
suitable subject, being of easy culture and remarkably free flowering. The 
blossoms are smaller than in many other members of this genus, but 
are borne in large clusters, and well matured pseudobulbs bear from five 
to ten flowers. The sepals and petals are rosy lilac, and the lip white with 
a yellow disc. It lasts many days in perfection, and is of good constitution. 
Cattleya Loddigesii is very similar to the above, and is also suitable for an 
amateur’s house. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ADRIAN&.—This is a very pretty hybrid between 
‘O. crispum and Hunnewellianum, which first appeared as a natural hybrid. 
It is very variable, the ground colour of the sepals and petals being some- 
times white, but often of various shades of yellow, in nearly all cases 
spotted with reddish brown. It is a cheap Orchid and remarkably 
floriferous ; healthy, well-grown plants often carrying fifty or more of its 
attractive blossoms. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HELLEMENSE VAR. BUTLERI.—A _ four-flowered 
inflorescence of a handsome hybrid is sent from the collection of W. 
Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, Edgbaston. It was purchased as a 
seedling, and until it flowered there was a little uncertainty as to which of 
two specified crosses it came from, but now the parentage can be given as 
‘O. loochristiense Vuylstekeanum xX O. crispum Rossendale (the other cross 
being out of the question), and thus it is a variety of O. hellemense, which 
may be named as above. The details of the lip and its union to the base 
of the column strongly recall O. triumphans, except that the ground colour 
is more white. The sepals are bright red-brown, with a nearly white apex 
and a narrow margin of the same colour, while the petals are about twice 
as broad, well toothed and acuminate at the apex, and the colour deep red- 
brown, with the apex and a broad clearly-defined margin white. There is 
also a prominent white blotch at the base of the petals and dorsal sepal. 
The lip is yellow blotched with brown, and the column deep red-brown 
at the back, with broad, deeply-toothed wings. 
