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in the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool. It 
was raised from C. Spicerianum 2 and C. barbatum Warneri f. The scape 
is dwarfer than usual, being about six inches high, and the flower brightly 
coloured, with more white than usual on the dorsal sepal. It is described 
by Mr. J.-O’Brien as C. x Hermione in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, Dec. 
2nd, 1893, p. 682. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY. 
By H. A. Burperry, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham. 
THE writing of the Calendar of Operations for the ensuing year is an honour 
which I accepted with some reluctance, being fully conscious of my own 
inabilities in Orchid culture. On the other hand, however, it gives me 
pleasure to be able to do all in my power for the present and future welfare 
of the aristocratic Orchid, as I am always ready and ever anxious to do. I 
therefore enter on the pleasurable task of stating my experiences to the 
readers of this valuable journal, trusting they will receive them with the 
kind consideration which my humble efforts will require. 
In the first place allow me to congratulate the Orchid-growing public 
that we have at length a periodical devoted entirely to the plants we love, 
and to express the hope that all growers, whether amateur or professional, 
will from time to time send such valuable information as they may deem 
important to the welfare of Orchids generally ; each giving the other credit 
for knowing “‘something ”’; and each therefore doing something to foster and 
strengthen the mutual and progressive feeling already existing, and which 
must necessarily exist if the general success of Orchid. culture is to be 
assured. The amateur can often teach the professional something, and 
vice versa. 
In commencing my Calendar, I feel compelled to reiterate much of what 
was said by my predecessor last month, as I feel that the importance of 
such valuable agents as light, air, warmth, and moisture, cannot be 
impressed too often upon the minds of new beginners. Of course old and 
experienced growers have already learnt their great value, and the impor- 
tance of utilising them to the fullest extent, yet with discretion, well knowing 
the bad results which follow if any of them are abused. 
I feel that new beginners, however, who perhaps do not know the 
character of the plants, are sometimes indifferent to the value of paying 
strict attention to these details, and it frequently happens that Orchids 
themselves are the chief culprits, for thus misguiding their would-be culti- 
vator. It happens in this way. The beginning is mostly made (or should 
be) with strong, healthy, newly imported, or semi-established plants, and it 
is well known that many of these, such as Cattleyas, Dendrobiums, Onci- 
diums, and some others, grow freely at first when subjected to almost any 
