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88 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Marci 1906, 
W. Thompson, Esq., Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), also received a Bronze 
Medal for a small choice collection. ‘ 
Messrs. J. Cowan & Co., Gateacre, received a Silver Medal for a good — 
group. 
Messrs. J. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, also received a Silver Medal 
for a good display of plants. 
Mr. S. Allen and Mr. D. McLeod were accorded Votes of Thanks for 
interesting groups. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE. 
Mr. C. W. FINDLow, gardener to A. J. Oakshott, Esq., J.P., Oaklands, 
Lower Bebington, Birkenhead, contributes an interesting note to a recent 
issue of the Journal of Horticulture respecting his method of treatment of 
Odontoglossum grande :—“ During the growing season,” he says, “Wem 
place them at the warmest end of the intermediate house, and I find 
occasional doses of weak manure water are beneficial, also damping 
amongst the pots with soot water. We leave them here until the flowers ~ 
begin to expand, then remove them to the warmest end of the cool house 
where they flower well. Here they remain during the resting period, keep- 
ing them on the dry side, never allowing them to get dust dry when growth 
is well started. Move them back to the Intermediate house again. They 
improve here each year. We have plenty of bulbs 7in. and Sin. in circum: 
ference, and have had nine flowers on one spike.” The treatment appeals 
to be highly successful, for one plant is mentioned as being in a 103 inch 
pan, carrying forty-eight fully-developed blooms, some being five t0 six 
inches across. 
ORCHIDS: THEN AND NOW. 
Many years ago the Saturday Review, in a brilliant article on Orchids, 
declared that there was one great advantage about them, and that was that 
they could never be hybridised, and my old friend, Mr. James Batema™ 
the father of the cool system of growing Orchids, once told me, with much 
emphasis, that no hybrid monstrosity should ever enter his Orchid house 
What would these authorities Say now? 
Allow me to congratulate you on the yearly increase of interest and 
value in the contents of the Orchid Review, and especially in the evidence 
there being stored as to the best materials and methods of growin 
Orchids, which makes one believe that these good-natured plants a 
be happy in almost any kind of compost, and under opposite syste™§ 
treatment. C. B.-Lucie-SMITH: 
The Acacias, Worthing. 
