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VARIETIES OP THE RUBY-LIPPED CATTLEYA. 
Since that time large importations have been made from the Caraccas and New Grenada of a 
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iwish or white or both ; some of them had crimson veins run 
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Mossice 
owned 
sufficient 
We are however obliged to say, after a most careful comparison 
Mossice 
and colour. 
enumeration of the varieties that exist of this nlant. unless 
the purposes of a Florist. "We therefore merely present those now figured wi 
White Ruby-lipped Cattleya (C. labiata Candida) and the Blotched (C. l.picta). 
The following account of the climate in which Cattleya labiata grows^ furnis 
hints which they will readily apply to practice, 
much cooler than it is at Rio. In the months of 
<c 
im 
May 
be as low as 32° just before day-break : the lowest at which I observed it myself was one morning at 
May 
durin 
six months I resided there, was in the end of February, when, one day, it indicated 84° at noon. 
The hot season is also the season of rains, and it is then that the mass of the Orchids, and almost 
every other tribe of plants, come into flower. From these facts cultivators ought to take a lesson in 
limil 
difference 
between the season of wet and that of flowering be so great in the state of nature, it must be obvious 
that to grow them well, artificially, a somewhat similar state of things ought to be observed. The 
greater part of the Orchids which are sent to England from the Organ Mountains, grow in the region 
of the above temperature, the elevation being from 3000 to 3500 feet above the level of the sea. In 
the account whicli T shall nrftsp.nt.lv chvp nf ™\t viai* +r» ^^ onmmi'i ^ ±v»^™ ™^,,-r,4-„;-«o, ^v*;^ ia ™™»a 
than double that elevation, I shall have occasion to mention several species which may be cultivated 
in a much cooler temperature. Another reason why no general rule can be laid down for the 
cultivation of these plants, is, the great variety of soil and situation which they affect in their native 
country j some, like Zt/gopetalum MacJcaii, are terrestrial, and grow in open exposed places j others, 
like JFarrea tricolor, are also terrestrial, but grow in the deep virgin forests ; some, like Zygopetalwm 
kinds of trees, on rocks, and even on the ground j some, lik 
found 
like Mamllari 
IFoodfordii, grow in a similar 
Amherstice, grow also on dry 
Grobj/i 
Hort 
but generally in the shade/' — Gardner in 
of 
