THE ORCHID WORLD. 



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Awards of Merit 



Odontoglossum ardentissimum variety Car- 

 men, from F. Menteith Ogilvie, Esq., The 

 Shrubbery, Oxford. — A fine variety carrying 

 a spike of about 20 round flowers heavily 

 spotted with purple 



Cattleya Mossiae variety Madame Jules 

 Hye, from Mons. Firmin Lambeau, Brussels. 

 — A beautiful and distinct variety of this 

 spring-flowering species. 



Odontioda Bradshawias variety Vogelzang, 

 from Mons. Firmin Lambeau. — A good spike 

 of 10 pinkish- white flowers blotched with 

 scarlet-rose. A pretty rose margin is on all 

 the segments. 



Laslio-Cattleya Lustre variety Buddah, 

 from Lieut.-Col Sir George Holford. — A 

 large flower of good shape and substance, the 

 labellum speckled and blotched with rose- 

 purple. 



Laelio-Cattleya Gladiator, from Lieut.-Col. 

 .Sir George Holford. — A large flower of 

 unrecorded parentage having an immense 

 purple blotched labellum. 



Odontoglossum amabile Princess Mary, 

 from Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans. — 

 A good flower with white sepals and petals 

 blotched with reddish-purple, the labellum 

 very broad. 



Odontoglossum crispum James McNabb, 

 from Messrs. Sander and Sons. — A fine 

 variety with handsome blotching, after the 

 style of the well-known variety Franz 

 Masereel. 



Odontoglossum majesticum James W. 

 Whitton (eximium x percultum), from Messrs. 

 Sander and Sons. — A very pretty hybrid of 

 good shape with the margins of the petals 

 crisped and toothed. The purple markings 

 arranged as in a good variety of amabile. 



Laelio-Cattleya Ulysses (L.-C. Fascinator x 

 C. Mossias Reineckiana), from Messrs. Charles - 

 worth and Co., Haywards Heath. — Flowers of 

 good shape and substance, the petals being 

 more erect than dften seen in L.-C. Fasci- 

 nator. Flowers pure white with a slight 

 speckling of purple on the inner side lobes of 

 the labellum. 



Laslio-Cattleya Ulysses alba, from Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co. — A pure white variety 

 of this elegant hybrid. 



Odontioda Chanctler, from Messrs. Charles- 

 worth and Co., Haywards Heath. — A large 

 flower of solid scarlet-red colour, much 

 resembling an immense variety of Cochlioda 

 Noezliana. 



Zygopetalum Armstrongae, from Messrs. 

 Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge Wells. — A 

 very handsome hybrid with elegant sepals 

 and petals, the labellum crimson-purple. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JUNE. 



By J. T. BARKER, The West Hill. Hessle, E. Yorks. 



THE temperatures given last month are 

 also suitable for the present one, and 

 the general conditions, as regards 

 ventilation, atmospheric moisture, and water- 

 ing are also applicable. It is desirable 

 during the summer months, especially should 

 the weather be extremely hot, to admit air 

 at night by the bottom ventilators, but this 

 should not be done to the extent of seriously 

 reducing the temperatures. It should always 

 be remembered that the conditions of the 

 atmosphere play a most important part in 

 the cultivation of Orchids. 



Cattleyas. Plants of Cattleya gigas, 



whether showing flower sheaths in the young 

 growths or not, should now be placed in the 

 lightest position possible, and should be 

 elevated close to the roof glass of the house. 

 The potting of these plants is best deferred 

 until after they have flowered and the new 

 pseudo-bulbs have fully developed, and are 

 seen to be pushing new roots from their 

 base. C. Mossias, C. Mendelii, and others, 

 as they pass out of flower and are seen to 

 be pushing new roots, may have attention as 

 regards re-potting, should it be a necessity, 

 using a compost as previously advised for 

 this class of plant. C. Dowiana, and its 



