more than ourselves that the ill health of the excellent editor 
of Galeotti’s Orchids should so relentlessly oppose the publi- 
cation of a work which both botanists and amateurs expect 
with great interest. 
Fig. 1. represents the column and lip of the bean-budded 
Gongora a little magnified. 
It may either be potted in the usual way, or it may be 
put into a wire basket with moss or rough peat, and sus- 
pended to a rafter. This, like many more species of Orchids, 
requires to be kept moist at the root, as well as in a moist 
atmosphere, during the growing season. To obtain this in 
sunny weather, it will be necessary to use shading, by which 
the temperature may also be kept about 80° by day, without 
admitting much air. In summer there is little or no need 
for fire heat; if the house is shut up early in the afternoon it 
will be found quite sufficient. In winter, when the tempera- 
ture should average 60°, little water for a few weeks will be 
required ; still it is necessary to keep up a moist atmosphere. 
