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FORMS OF GYPRIPEDIUM CAUDATDM. IN THE KIMBA"LL CONSERVATORIES, ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



time for rest and time for flowering. It 

 is an old plant and the 5-inch basket is 

 much crowded -with old dead bulbs. When 

 would be the best time to divide and re- 

 basket it? Wm. P. Lyon. 

 Ontario. 



Stanhopeas send down from the baseot 

 the plant, a flowerstalk with a large, very 

 fragrant and strikingly gorgeous inflor- 



esence; the flowers of curious form. These 

 plants should be grown in shallow and 

 therefore rather broad baskets, and the 

 material used for them to root in is best 

 of fresh sphagnum moss on a light layer 

 of clean fibrous peat, all quite open. As 

 the flower-stalks usually push down 

 through the compost and bottom of the 

 basket, everything which would impede 

 their progress should be avoided, hence, 

 having removed the bottoms of the bas- 



kets, I lay across a few pieces of round 

 smooth canes, such as are used by florists 

 for tying up plants, just enough to retain 

 in place plant and compost. 



They delight in a warm greenhouse or 

 stove. Single old bulbs with a live eye 

 will throw out a new growth if put in 

 moss and sand and laid in moist heat. 

 They generally flower in autumn and 

 need a long dry rest after growth is fin- 

 ished. Wm'. H. C. 



