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the hottest department during the growing season, and at no time will 
they stand the low temperature of the Cool house. They must also be 
kept very sweet at the roots by supplying fresh material every year. 
Thev must be grown in pans or baskets—which should be proportionately 
small—suspended, and but very little water must be supplied during 
the early stages of growth, or the new breaks soon damp off. 
The “short-borer” beetle, which commits such ravages amongst the 
Dendrobiums, has again been introduced into several collections. I 
recently saw a lot of Dendrobiums in a sorry plight indeed. The beetle 
had been at work amongst them stealthily, I should say, for some con- 
siderable time. At any rate, by the time it was observed irreparable 
damage had been done. Beautiful plants of Dendrobium, that a few 
weeks previously looked the pink of condition, are represented now 
by a few pseudobulbs sticking up here and there, looking isolated and 
miserable enough—the remainder have been cut away. If not noticed 
in time, the region of the pseudobulb attacked soon decays and is 
rendered useless, but if seen in time a spot of paraffin dropped into 
the hole often brings out the beetle and stops further mischief. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND 
ORCHID SOCIETY. 
Ar the meeting of this Society, held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on 
February roth, 1898, there was a magnificent display of good things, we 
think the best the Society have yet succeeded in bringing together, no less 
than seventy-eight plants being separately entered to be brought before the 
Committee. The members present were—Messrs. Thompson (in the chair), 
Backhouse, Bolton, Cypher, Gratrix, Greenwood, Johnson, Leemann, 
Schofield, Stevens, Weathers, and Gent (Hon. Sec.). Some two hours 
were occupied in adjudicating upon the plants, and the Committee granted 
seventeen First-class Certificates, thirty Awards of Merit, and two Cultural 
Certificates. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), staged 
Odontoglossum crispum candidissimum, O. X excellens spectabile, 
O. nebulosum candidulum, and Cattleya amethystoglossa. These plants 
formed a beautiful group of wonderfully well-grown plants, besides being 
exceptional in quality, and each obtained a First-class Certificate. 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Ashford, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Hay), showed 
Cattleya Triane alba (First-class Certificate), Dendrobium Wardianum 
album (Award of Merit), and D. W. ochroleucum (First-class Certificate). 
The latter is a distinct albino, with pure white sepals and petals, and pure 
