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lobe of the lip is large, rich amethyst shaded with purple, 

 and bordered with white ; the base yellow, streaked with 

 purple. It should be placed upon a block with a little 

 sphagnum moss, and suspended from the roof at the warmest 

 end of the Cattleya house, shaded from the direct rays of the 

 sun, and supplied with water liberally during the growing 

 season ; during the winter less heat will suffice, but it must 

 by no means be allowed to get dry. It is a rare plant, but a 

 very desirable one, as it blooms twice in the year, first in the 

 month of July, and again about the end of September or 

 beginning of October. It is beautifully rendered amongst 

 the superb illustrations in the second volume of Warner's 

 " Select Orchidaceous Plants.'' Native of Brazil. 



C. Sedeniana. — A beautiful garden hybrid, the parents being 

 C. crispa and C. granulosa ; it is tall in habit ; the flowers are 

 large and handsome ; the sepals and petals light rose, shaded 

 with green ; the lip has a white fimbriated margin, centre 

 purple, with darker veins. A desirable plant. 



C. Skinneri. — A beautiful and free-flowering plant from 

 Guatemala, growing about a foot high, and blooming in 

 March, April, and May. The blossoms are rose purple, 

 and remain three weeks in perfection, if kept dry. This 

 fine species of Cattleya, when grown strong, will produce as 

 many as nine or ten flowers on a spike. It is one of the finest 

 Orchids that can be grown for any of the exhibitions in May, 

 the colour being distinct and difierent from that of anv other 

 Cattleya. One of the finest plants of this species I ever saw 

 was exhibited at the Regent's Park Exhibition in 1869, by 

 Mr. Archer, gardener to A. Turner, Esq., of Leicester; it was 

 in beautiful health, splendidly flowered, and measured some 

 three feet in diameter. 



C. s2Jeciosissima Lowii. — This is a very handsome form of 

 the C. labiata type. The pseudobulbs are oblong and dee jly 



