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THE DERBY TULIP CHALLENGE. 
plants, there being a new bulb produced every year opposite the 
old one, and, allowing the bulb to be only three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, it would remove six inches from where it ori¬ 
ginated in eight years. 
I have been informed that the Horticultural Society offer 
medals this year for collections of hardy orchids in pots. May 
their exertions be crowned with some fine specimens brought 
before them ! I think it likely to be the means of making their 
cultivation more general, and stimulating to those who have 
already begun. R. Keeler. 
[We find the majority of the species to thrive in pots, if care 
is taken to imitate the leading constituents of their native soils. 
We assimilate their treatment to that usual with the division of 
Cape bulbs which are found in the most temperate regions, and 
to which our respected correspondent refers. We presume they 
are potted in the autumn, and preserved through the winter 
under a thick layer of leaves or old tan ; in the spring they are 
removed to a cold frame, in a sunny situation, and being mode¬ 
rately watered, speedily burst into leaf, and usually bloom finely. 
A reduction of water and the return to their old quarters mark 
the autumnal treatment. —Ed.] 
THE DERBY TULIP CHALLENGE. 
The terms of this friendly trial of skill, originating in a spirit of 
emulation, have been determined on by the agreement of bothparties 
to show thirty distinct varieties in six classes. The day appointed 
is Thursday the 28th of May next, and the exhibition to take place 
at Nottingham. The judges appointed are R. Dixon, Esq. of 
Manchester; W. Thornelly, Esq. of Heaton Norris, near Stock- 
port, and Mr. W. Hepworth, of Halifax. The growers selected 
to supply the flowers, and on whom the credit of either county 
will depend, are, on the part of Derby, Messrs. J. Gibbons, W. 
Allen, J. Allen, W. Parkinson, J. Parkyn, and J. Eason ; those 
for Nottingham are Messrs. W. Wild, J. F. Wood, J. Mach, W. 
Harpham, J. Spencer, and J. Thackeray, Esq. . The result of the 
meeting will be looked to with an interest only to be under¬ 
stood by tulip growers. 
