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JOUBNAL OF HOBTIOULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 2, 1074. 



variety introduced which is in full beauty about Christmas ; 

 so with a plant of each variety au amateur may maintain a 

 Buocession of these briUiaut flowers during the dullest of the 

 winter months. 



This species is a great lover of shade and moisture, and 

 when provided with these it will not tail to thrive. For soil 

 use good rough fibrous peat, from which the small gritty par- 

 ticles have been beaten, and mix with it some living sphaguum 



Fig. 2.— ODOHTOQLOSStJM ORAKDE. 



moBB. The pots should be drained well, and Talthough'a less 

 supply of water (as a matter of course) during the dull dark 

 d.ays of an English winter is absolutely necessary, this element, 

 however, must not be entirely withheld, for they will not suffer 

 to bo dried off. During summer the temperature should be 

 about 70", or, indeed, whatever the atmosphere of the house 

 can be kept down to, but no fire heat should be applied ; in 



winter, however, I have had the plant thriving admirably in a 

 night temperature of 48° to 50°, and these are conditions which 

 no amateur, I am of opinion, would find any difficulty in pro- 

 viding it with. 



One word of advice more and I have done, and that is, bear 

 in mind that during the season of growth care must be taken 

 to prevent water resting in the large imbricating sheaths which 



