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should not be allowed to become dry either by day or night. The plants 
usually bloom during June and July, but by keeping them cool and shading 
them from the sun, he had delayed them from flowering until the beginning 
of July, and they then lasted until the end of August. Disas like a short 
rest before growth commences, and as soon as the old leaves are seen to 
become brown in tint, less water should be given. The best time to re-pot 
is the end of September or beginning of October. Mr. Burkinshaw’s 
practice is to re-pot them one year, and the next year merely to re-surface 
them and put the drainage in order. Ordinary pots or pans are preferred 
to perforated ones, and the crocks are best put end downward instead of 
horizontally, as the young roots like to run down between the crocks. The 
crocks should be covered with sphagnum-moss, and the drainage should 
be efficient. 
The compost used is peat, a little dry cow-manure, and broken charcoal, 
all passed through a half-inch sieve, and the fine portion rejected. The 
plants should be knocked out carefully, so that the roots are injured as little 
as possible. In potting, the plants should be elevated a little above the rim, 
when there is less liability to damp at the collar. The potting material 
may be surfaced with living sphagnum-moss and broken sand-stone, after 
which the plants should be watered with tepid water and removed to their 
winter quarters. They should be shaded from hot sunshine, and for this 
purpose blinds are best, as it is possible to remove them when not required. 
Little root-watering will be needed until after February, in which month 
the plants will commence to grow. During March, April, and May, 
however, they should be given copious supplies, and, in the latter month, 
guano at the rate of one ounce to a gallon of tepid water may be given with 
much benefit. A few flowers were sent by Mr. Burkinshaw that his plants 
had produced as late as September. 
At the meeting held on September 20th, Orchids were much more 
numerous than at the two or three previous ones. The members of the 
Orchid Committee present were: H. J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), H. Ballantine, T. W. Bond, H. ds 
Chapman, W. Cobb, S. Courtauld, J. Douglas, J. G. Fowler, J. T. Gabriel, 
E. Hill, H. Little, H. M. Pollett, W. H. White, and W. H. Young. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), staged a fine group, consisting chiefly of Miltonias, and including a 
very fine, well-flowered specimen of M. spectabilis, which had been for years 
in the collection, and to which a Cultural Commendation was given; M. s. 
Moreliana, M. Clowesii, the handsome M. X Bluntii Lubbersiana, M. X 
leucoglossa, having cream-white sepals and petals blotched with pale violet, 
and a pure white lip with a few purple markings round the crest (Award of 
