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contained two good forms of Cattleya x Eros; C. Xx Euphrasia 
langleyensis, a very pretty variety, having light rose-coloured flowers, with 
the base of the lip yellowish white and the front lobe dark claret purple ; 
C. X Ella (bicolor ¢ X Warscewiczii 3), a fine hybrid, with flowers most 
like C. bicolor in shape, and the colour rosy lilac, with a brilliant purple 
front lobe margined with lavender (Award of Merit); the brilliant Lzelio- 
cattleya X callistoglossa ignescens ; several good L.-c. xX Nysa; the 
interesting Epidendrum xX radicanti-Stamfordianum; some good forms of 
Dendrobium Phalzenopsis, Renanthera matutina, Masdevallia x Imogen, 
Rodriguezia venusta, Cypripedium X Clinkaberryanum, C. xX H. Ballantine, 
the handsome C. X Rothschildiano-villosum, C. x Milo, C. x Harrisianum 
superbum, and other good things. — 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, showed a 
Cypripedium called C x palawanense, said to have been imported from 
North Borneo, and supposed to be a natural hybrid. It bears a considerable 
resemblance to C: X Kimballianum. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, showed Cypripedium x William 
Trelease (Rothschildianum ? X Parishii ¢),a fine hybrid with large yellow 
dorsal sepal veined with dark purple, petals irregularly blotched and lined 
with similar colour, and the lip tinged and veined with rose; another pretty 
hybrid called C. x Mrs. Edgar Cohen, derived from C. callosum X niveum, 
and thus a variety of C. X Winifred Hollington; Dendrobium 
Phalzenopsis and other interesting things. 
THE CULTIVATION OF DISAS. 
At three o’clock, a paper by Mr. T. W. Burkinshaw, on ‘‘ The Disa,” 
was read by the secretary (Rev. W. Wilks, M.A.), the chair being taken by 
Mr. George Paul. Mr. Burkinshaw is a very successful grower of Disas, 
and, after a few introductory words as to their utility and beauty, he 
proceeded to describe the details of their culture by which success could be 
attained, the directions being primarily applicable to D. grandiflora. From 
the conditions under which his own plants were cultivated, Mr. Burkinshaw 
showed that Disas require a house to protect them from severe frost and cold 
draughts, though abundance of fresh air is necessary, and even during very 
cold weather the admission of a little air several times a day, so as to 
change the atmosphere, will benefit the plants. In the winter of 1894, 
owing to the boiler being weak, the temperature of Mr. Burkinshaw’s house 
fell one or two degrees below freezing point, so that the soil was quite 
hardened on the service, and the young growths blackened, but, by the use 
of cold water over the plants before the sun was upon them, he prevented 
any injury resulting, and the same season he had forty to sixty spikes of 
bloom which bore six, eight, or nine blooms on a spike. The atmosphere 
