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but I prefer pans or baskets with the usual compost of peat and moss. The 

 plant when first imported may probably be ill-shaped for repotting, but 

 although its habit of growth is straggling, a way can generally be found to 

 secure the plant firmly in its receptacle, which, when done, is more easily and 

 better managed than on a raft. During summer, when growth is active, it 

 may be syringed frequently, but during winter a long and very dry rest must 

 be given. 



ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 



A series of live seedling forms of the beautiful Odontoglossum X Rolfeae is 

 sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, 

 by Mr. Stevens. They were raised in the collection, and Mr. Stevens 

 remarks that the one exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting at Holland House 

 as O. X Rolfeas X Pescatorei is another seedling from the same batch. On 

 searching his books he discovered that a mistake had been made in the 

 record. The seedlings show a good deal of variation in the breadth of the 

 segments, and one of them is particularly promising, as all the segments 

 are short and broad, the lip measuring an inch across in front, and the 

 dorsal sepal and petals only a line narrower, while the spots on the sepals 



longer segments, and thus approaching O. Harryanum in shape. The 

 others are more intermediate in shape. The inflorescences at present bear 

 from four to seven flowers, and when the plants become stronger they 

 should develop into very handsome things. 



Two tine flowers of the handsome Stanhopea tigrina are sent from the 

 collection of J. H. Grogan, Esq., Slaney Park, Baltinglass, together with a 

 good spike of Aerides odoratum and A. expansum Leonias, and a well- 

 coloured form of Lselia X cinnabrosa. The Stanhopea is one of the most 



