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winter quarters. C, labiata is also very liable to rot in exactly the same 
manner. This must not be mistaken for a disease ; it is simply caused by 
the damp, and it can only be avoided by the usual methods adopted for 
procuring a suitable atmosphere. 
Such East Indian house Orchids as Aérides, Saccolabiums, Vandas, 
Phalenopses, &c., must now have a trifle less water given them, and also 
the amount of moisture in the atmosphere should be somewhat reduced. 
They have now partially completed their season’s growth, and, like all other 
kinds of Orchids, it is necessary to ripen and harden these also. But it 
must be carefully done; species having no pseudobulbs are very easily 
injured by extremes of treatment. All that is necessary, in addition to the 
above, is to shade less, and give as much air as the outside conditions will 
permit. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
AT the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on August 11th, there was a moderate display 
of Orchids, which included several interesting exhibits, particularly a very 
fine form of Cattleya x Hardyana, and a second hybrid from Cattleya 
citrina. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), received 
a First-class Certificate for Cattleya x Hardyana splendens, one of the 
finest forms of this handsome hybrid yet seen, and exceedingly well grown. 
Tbe flowers were large and well-formed, the sepals and petals most 
_ bling C. W iczii, but the lip very dark purple-crimson, and 
veined with deep yellow, as in C. Dowiana. He also sent cut examples of 
Lelio-cattleya x elegans, a richly coloured form, L.-c. x elegans 
Morreniana, and the rare L.-c. X Sedeni—the latter plant, we believe, not 
being represented in any other collection. 
I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell gr. Mr. 
Chapman), received a Bronze Banksian Medal for a very interesting group, 
including Lzelio-cattleya x Schilleriana, Cattleya Wasrcewiczii, the pretty 
little orange-red Laelia monophylla, Oncidium longipes, Cypripedium x 
Clinkaberryannum, C. Godefroyz, C. X Lachmee, C. X Charles Canham, 
a fine plant of C. x th Selenipedi x grande, the remarkable 
Pleurothallis scapha, Masdevallia Chimera, M. Barleana, M. amabilis, 
several good forms of M. coccinea (Harryana), M. x Stella, M. guttulata, 
M. Reichenbachiana, &c. A Botanical Certificate was given to the singular 
little Scaphosepalum anchoriferum, a species formerly known as Masdevallia 
anchorifera, 
