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JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GABDENER. 



[ Ootober 28, 1876. 



almost a greenhouse temperature. The most beautiful amongst 

 them are adapted for the coolest house, such as 0. crispum, 

 0. Pescatorea, 0. triumphans. Another section do best in a 

 house with a temperature about 5° or 10' higher during the 



winter months. These comprise Odontoglossum hastUabium, 

 0. eitrosmum, and the subject of which the engraving is a 

 very good Ulastration, 0. hastatum. Like nearly the whole 

 of the genus it Buoceeda best in a pot with plenty of drainage, 



Fig. 82.— Odontoglossum hastatcm. 



and the ordinary potting material of sphagnum and fibry I and does some mischief before the flowera open ; the best way 

 pent. ! is to brush the inseota off. 



0. hastatum is a Mexican apeoies.and, like most of the intro- 

 ductions from that country, it does not require quite so much 

 water at the roots, especially in the winter or at the time that 

 the pseudo-bulbs are resting preparatory to the plants making 

 n'new growth. The OdontogloBsuma are not very subject to 

 the attacks of insect pests, but green fly .infects the flower-spikes, 



NEAR AND AMONG THE ANTEDILUVIANS. 



No. 3. 

 In the graveyard on the north side of Lyme Regis church 

 stands a common round-topped headstone in memory of Joseph 



