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Cattli'vax, wln'lIitT (hey come tVoin HrM/il, Xcw May, .Iinic ur.Iuly. and rest uiilil Ilic iniiMlf of 

 Granada, Vmc/ucla, or Ccnlral Aini-iica. can N'ovcnilicr. 



be ijrown in tlic same house, and under the C crispu, also <alled Lielia erispa. From 

 same treatment, only liavini; a eon eel knouled;,'e Hra/il. Sepals ;ind j)etiils, slii^htly white; tiiiyetl 

 of their proper season of j:;r()\vtli. My expiiienee pini>le and ( nil id on the edges; lip erimsoi) vio- 

 is that all Catlleya }j;ro\v hesi in pots, except a let. edires \vhite,and (heedLje isheantilully crisped, 

 few small f.M-o\vers. ]?ut in jjrowing them in ])(>ls. hloom in the summer. I'Mowers lour inehe.s 

 the pots shojdd he tilled (hree-(iuarlers lull of diameter, and last ahout .'> weeks, 

 drainage, and tlu^ i)lants ]n'\)l widl al)ove the ('. .Vo.svrp, A'ene/.uela. growth like (.labiata; 

 pots, and the lower hulhs covered with sphagnum sepals and jielals Irom nearly wliite to rose; lip 

 mo.ss. As the roots of Cattleyas are perennial, losy purple, with a hriirht orange disk. In the 

 great care should bo taken to keep the snails markings there is no Orchid that varies more 

 and wood-lice from eating them ; and at the time than this, and also in the size of the tlowers. 

 the plants are making new roots tlu'V should be IJnt all are l»eautiful, and it should he grown 

 kept well mossed up. The old roots, if kept largely. Fowers from 5 to H inches in diameter, 

 sound, will emit now laterals, which will add and from two to five on a stem ; can be brought 

 much to the vigor of the plants. into bloom in May. 



Cattleyas and LjT?lia.s suffer more from injudi- ('. Triance, C. Bogotensis and C. Warscewiczii. 

 cious watering than any Orchids that I luive 'J'hese seem to me to be very closely allied and 

 cultivated, and will do with less water. I grow all l)loom in the winter, and appear to me to be 

 small ferns in the moss with the Cattleyas, and no more separate species than the difierent va^ 

 as long as the ferns show no want of water, I rieties of C. Mossse ; sepals and petals white or 

 know that the Cattleyas have enough. There is rosy white, lip rosy lilac, with an orange blotch 

 less danger of over-watering, when the plants at the throat. Blooms two or three on a stem, 

 are kept well above the pots. In a few years, and are. nearly G inches in diameter. If kept in 

 the moss will be a mass of fine, healthy roots, a dry, cool room, the blooms will last four weeks. 

 Cattleya.s need a long season of rest, differing (J. chocoensis. Bulbs about '.) inches long and 

 according to their time of blooming. I will more slender than C. labiata. Blooms in 

 note later, in describing the species, what I winter; sepals and petals white, lij) purple and 

 have found to be the dormant season. orange with a crispe(> margin. The (lowers are 



There seems to be three distinct forms of^hi^'k, and have a waxy appearance, very fra^ 

 growth among Cattleyas: 1st, like C. labiata, urant. 



•which has a bulb about 5 or G inches long, and *"• (jundricolor and C. maxima are like C. 

 one strong leathery leaf varying in length from G chocoensis in growth and form of fiower, but I 

 inches to a foot; 2d, like Skinnerii, which has J>i^ve not bloomed either of them. They come 

 clavate or club-sliaped bulbs with two leaves fi'""i t^^t^ l^'i^ilic side of New Granada, 

 from 3 to inches long ; 3d, like C. Ilarrisonii, ' C", PoMJiana, Costa Kica. This by many iscon- 

 with slender bulbs from 1 to 2?i feet long, sur- ; sidered finer than C. labiata. It is a strong 

 mounted by two or three leaves. These latter .^.^'o^ver, sepals and petals nankeen yellow; lip 

 are all Brazilian species. Cattleya.s all bloom Pi'i'plish crimson, with golden yellow veins, 

 from a siSathe coming out of the top of (he l^'lowers from 5 to G inches in diameter, and Iron) 

 bulbs, and vary in the number of the blooms three to six on a stem. I saw this in bloom with 

 from two to a dozen. ' tl>e late Mr. A. Hack. It is getting .scarce in 



Of the first group with one leaf, C. labiata, j Costa Rica, 2d class, 

 from Brazil, is probably the handsomest. Flow-] ^'- ^S'A-mraem, Guatemala. Has upright club- 

 ers six inches in diameter ; sepals and petals shaped bulbs 8 to 10 inches in height and 

 rose ; lip rich crimson; blooms from .June to two leaves; flowers from three to ten on a stem. 

 October; has three or four flowers on a stem, i^ose with crimson lip. Flowers about 4 inches 

 and lasts in bloom four weeks. There are quite i i" diameter, and blooms in May. 

 a number of varieties of this grand Orchid. I have 1 C'.swpcr^a, British Guiana. Bulbs and leaves much 

 one with nearly white sepals and petals. This I like C. Skinnerii, but much darker. Flowers five 

 species commences to grow late in the Fall.and so 'inches in diameter, about four on a stem, and 

 will all Cattleya.s that come from Brazil, if kept in ' blooms through the Summer and Fall. Sepals 

 a temperature of G0° to Gr)°. They will l)loom in and petals splendid ro>e-lip crimson with white 



