THE ORCHID REVIEW. 215 
ODONTOGLOSSUM GALEOTTIANUM. 
This very rare Odontoglossum has appeared on several occasions among 
importations of O. Cervantesti, which is rather curious, seeing that it is 
evidently a good species and not a hybrid. It is nearly allied to O. 
nebulosum, but the flowers are pure white, with a very few brown spots 
near the base of the petals, and a long white callus to the lip covered with 
yellow streaks. It has been suggested to be a natural hybrid between the 
two species just named, both by Reichenbach and others, but this is clearly 
incorrect, for the column has invariably a pair of long subulate-linear 
teeth not met with in any other. A plant of it has now flowered in the 
collection of C. Young, Esq., Royston Gardens, Richmond. It is a very 
pretty little plant, and apparently very rare in a wild state. Galeotti, the 
original discoverer, found it near Oaxaca, growing on oaks at 7-8,000 feet 
elevation. 
Odontoglossum Galeottianum, A. Rich. in Azn. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, iii. p. 27 ; Lindl. Fol. 
Orch., Odont., p.9; Rehb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 393 id., 1874, i, p. 973 Rolfe, /c., 
1890, ii., p. II. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JULY. 
By W. H. Wuire, Burford, Dorking. 
Ow1nc to the immense quantity of Orchids now annually imported, greater 
facilities for obtaining these plants than in former years has induced many 
new growers to commence their cultivation, and to such a few hints on 
their management may prove acceptable. Notwithstanding the severe 
ordeal which the plants have to pass through from the time they are 
collected until they arrive in this country, they are, generally speaking, 
easy to establish; a fact which is due to the care taken by the collectors 
to gather them in the proper season, and to careful packing, besides which, 
owing to the greatly improved steamship service, the transit \from their 
native habitats is decidedly quicker than in olden times. One thing may 
be justly said in favour.of imported plants, that, although they have been 
- considerably weakened by losing a nurhber of leaves and roots, they are of 
healthy constitution; also they create great expectations from the buyers 
as regards variety. 
To be successful in establishing imported Orchids, much depends upon 
good judgment and discretion on the part of the cultivator. First cut away 
all dead roots, &c., and carefully sponge all bulbs and leaves, so as to 
thoroughly cleanse them from dirt and insects. Instead of immediately 
placing the plants into their growing quarters, it is advisable to keep them 
for a few days in a cooler and drier atmosphere, asif the plants be subjected 
