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not be applied of a temperature below 60°. Syringing, in moderation, may be had recourse to in hot weather. Some of 
the Sobralias, together with Bromhedia palustris, grow more vigorously if their pots are set in saucers of water during 
the summer months. | 
To the foregoing rules the following advice may be added :—“ Do not aim at having too large a collection, but rather 
strive to grow a few good kinds in the best style.” With moderate cate and in a moderate-sized house, the whole of the 
plants enumerated in the subjoined “Century,” will thrive apace, and bloom freely—and he whom such a brilliant assem- 
blage fails to satisfy must be an ardent collector indeed. 
INTERIOR OF EPIPHYTE HOUSE, AT KNYPERSLEY. 
