192 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Perrinii, Cochlioda Neetzliana, Vandas tricolor and sauvis, Dendrobium 
h » Lelia cinnabari Cattleya citrina, Odontoglossum X 
Wilckeanum, and other showy things. : 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a fine group, containing a nice lot of Cypripedium bellatulum 
and C. niveum, C. x Lawre-venustum, C. x southgatense, and others, 
Oncidium sarcodes, O. hastatum, Odont ra itrosmum ee good 
Lelia purpurata, Cattleya Mossi, and other showy things. A First-class 
Certificate was given to Lelia purpurata Lewisii, a beautiful nearly white 
form, whose only colour was some faint purple radiating streaks on the lip. 
Messrs. Linden, L’Horticul I ionale, Brussels, sent a few 
good Orchids, including Odontoglossum Pescatorei, a fine O. X 
Ruckerianum, Cattleya Mossiz: Reineckeana, and the curious Gongar 
Portentosa. A First-class Certificate was given to Odontoglossum cusp 
augustum, one of the darkest. forms yet seen. The segments were white at 
the margins, but the disc of each was occupied by one irregular purple 
blotch. It was erroneously labelled as a natural hybrid. 
Cut flowers of Orchids were also used to great effect in the stands for 
dinner table decorations, &c. 
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TREATMENT OF DENDROBIUM JAMESIANUM. 
On the shelf over the fire-place of the office of a well-known dealer ee ths 
neighbourhood is a small plant of the above-mentioned species growing a 
water. This same plant has been there, to my knowledge, for at least ie 
months, and during that time has developed roots in the water, ands 
growth of seven or eight inches in length from below the surface. Of course 
I do not advise that growers should procure a stock of hyacinth ae 
but the above facts May suggest to some of us who are not successful ae 
this species that an insufficient supply of water to the roots is the cause 
failure. . 
F, H. Moore. 
Liverpool. 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
G. M. L., Lincoln. Dendrobium formosum. 
C. Stoldt.  Lycaste brevispatha and Odontoglossum tripudians. ‘ests 
We have received the Catalogue of Orchids and New Plants for 1896 issued by er of 
F. Sander & Co., in which we notice a number of fine hybrids and interesting 5 
recent introduction, several of which are illustrated, 
