



The genus Oaeidium is one of the most extensive amongst cultivated Orchidaceous plants, its species 

 being confined entirely to the Western Hemisphere, over which, both on the mainland and on the numerous 

 ifllancb, they are profusely distributed* The variety of which our illustration is a von* faithful representation, 

 (lowered for the tir>i time in Europe in the garden of its introducer, Dr. Rogers, in 1S6S, and subsequently, 

 in the autumn of 1870, in the establishment of Messrs Witch and Sons, of Chelsea, who obtained 

 Dr. Rogers' plant, Wc regret to know it i* still extremely rare, though it thrives admirablv, grown in rough 

 fibrous pcat> and suspended in a basket from the roof of IhcCattlcya House, that w to say, in a temperature 

 during winter of from 05° to 70 c by day, and *10° by night. During the summer season it will be 

 benefited by a higher temperature, say from 70* lo 85* by day, and 05° to 70° by night. Great attention 

 should be paid to the state of Ihe atmosphere, for, during tbc growing season, it enjoys abundance of 

 moisture, while in winter very little will suffice. 



Like all Oitciditun^ this variety is liable to become infested with the white scale insect, which, if allowed 

 to increase, will soon reduce the plant to bad health. A strict surveillance should therefore be kept (o 

 pievonl their effecting a lodgment An occasional wishing with warm water and soft soap will, however, 

 be found a safe preventive against these (tcsto. Increase is effected by division. 





