Most cultivators of stove Orchideous plants find a diffi- 
culty in managing the particular tribe to which this belongs; 
that difficulty is, however, completely overcome in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society, in which these flourish 
more than almost any others. In that establishment they 
are treated thus: they are planted in perfectly rotten wood 
in small pots, which are covered with moss tied securely 
about them; these pots are suspended obliquely from the 
rafters of the front part of a small stove, in such a wa 
that the plants are not compelled to grow upright, but are 
allowed to assume the pendulous or horizontal position, 
which is natural to them. Thus. treated, species of the 
true Dendrobium habit, such as D. chrysanthum, flourish 
in a degree which is at least equal to that of their native 
woods. The temperature of such a stove should never 
fall below 75°, and the dew point should be always near 
saturation. 
J. L. 
