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THE ORCHID REVIEW. [December, 1904. 



much, and that under the most careful treatment. We have yet to see as 

 fine specimens of any of the genera named grown in a leaf-mould mixture 

 as are grown in our native fern fibre. Up till three years ago we had a 

 huge plant of C. Bowringiana grown in a basket, which annually produced 

 about six hundred Mowers, the largest specimen we have seen. It became 

 rather unwieldy, and was divided up into moderate-sized plants, which are 

 more serviceable. It requires something more than clean water to produce 

 Cattleyas of this calibre. We use sheep and cow manure water, as well as 

 Cookson's formula. Some growers decry the use of stimulants for Orchids; 

 we find they need a good deal of liquid food in America, and the idea held 

 in some quarters that feeding is injurious does not apply to the land of the 

 Almighty Dollar. William N. Craig. 



F. L. Ames' Estate, North Easton, Mass., U.S.A. 



SOCIETIES. 



A meeting of the R.H.S. was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 

 Vincent Square, Westminster, on November 1st, when there was a 

 magnificent display of Orchids, one of the finest ever seen in November, 

 and no less than ten medals were awarded for groups. 



J. Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), staged a large 

 and magnificent group, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. It contained 

 numerous examples of good culture, and among the more noteworthy 

 plants were three fine specimens of Cymbidium Tracyanum, C. elegans, 

 C. X Winnianum, Cattleya labiata alba and numerous fine coloured forms, 

 C. X Minerva lilacina, C. X Mantini nobilior. C. X John Baguley, C. X 

 Miss Williams, C. Bowringiana lilacina, C. Dowiana, Spathoglottis X 

 aureo-Kimballiana, two forms of the true Spathoglottis aurea, one of them 

 being a home-raised seedling, the handsome Lselio-cattleya X Colmaniana, 

 La;lia Perrinii, L. Dayana, and some good forms of L. pumila, including 

 several of the pretty Gatton Park variety, in which the purple of the lip is 

 replaced by a shade of slate-blue, Epidendrum fragrans, E. ciliare, 

 Dendrobium Phalamopsis, the brilliant Sophronitis grandiflora, Oncidium 

 ornithorrhynchum album, O. varicosum Rogersii, Calanthe X Veitchii and 

 C. vestita luteo-oculata, Masdevallia Davisii, M. cucullata with eight 

 flowers, Restrepia erythroxantha and R. maculata, Odontoglossum 

 tripudians bearing a spike with four side branches, Cypripedium insigne 

 Sanderae and other good forms, C. X Arthurianum, C. X nitens, C. 

 Rothschildianum, and numerous others. 



J. Bradshaw, Esq., Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), received a Silver- 

 gilt Flora Medal for an excellent group, in which some good forms of 



