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the year, must be eradicated, as if allowed to get established the foliage 
will be seriously damaged. 
GENERAL REMARKS.—If the ends and the sides of the houses have not 
already been shaded, no time must be lost in doing this, as the sun will now 
have great power. Keep the glass of the houses scrupulously clean, so that 
all the light possible may be admitted. Watch carefully for thrip, which, at 
this season especially, will often put in an appearance. All other pests, of 
whatever description, must continually be sought for. In all branches of 
plant cultivation every means possible should be taken in preserving the 
foliage in a clean and healthy condition. Work will come on apace this 
month, and we shall find our time fully occupied in attending to the wants 
of the different plants as regards potting, cleaning, and other things which 
occur to us as cultivators. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on February 2oth, when there was a remarkably fine display 
of Orchids, including ten medal groups, three Awards of Merit and one 
Cultural Commendation being also given. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Harry J. Veitch, Gurney Wilson, J. S. Moss, 
Stuart Low, R. G. Thwaites, T. Armstrong, A. A. McBean, J. Charles- 
worth, J. Cypher, J. E. Shill, W. H. Hatcher, C. H. Curtis, W. P. Bound, 
A. Dye, W. H. White, R. Brooman White, W. Bolton, de Barri Crawshay, 
C. J. Lucas, H. G. Alexander, R. A. Rolfe, Sir George L. Holford, and Sir 
Jeremiah Colman. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. 
Alexander), staged a magnificent group, to which the Society’s Gold Medal 
was awarded. It contained a very fine series of Lelia anceps, especially 
the white varieties, including Dawsonii with eight spikes and alba with nine, 
some fine forms of Cattleya Trianz, C. Percivaliana alba and Charles- 
worthii, C. chocoensis alba Westonbirt var., some fine dark Cattleya 
Raphaeliz and others, the clear yellow and white Cypripedium Actzus 
Undine, and many other fine Cypripediums, Leeliocattleya Tigris, Weston- 
birt var. (L. Cowanii X L.-c. Dominiana), and many other finely grown 
Leliocattleyas, some excellent Brassocattleyas, Sophrocatlelia Danze 
Holford’s var., Sophrolelia leta Orpetiana, Sophrocattleya Chamberlainii, 
Miltonia Bleuana, Oncidium splerididum, Vanda Watsonii and Amesiana, 
Odontioda Devossiana, Odontoglossum crispum Peacock, with a spike of 
thirteen handsomely blotched flowers, the beautiful O. armainvillierense 
xanthotes, and others too numerous to mention. 
