164 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



weather outside. For the rest of the year a minimum of 60 

 degrees should be secured by fire heat. 



Vanda ccerulea^ the most popular species, does not do well 

 under the tropical conditions indicated, but is best managed in an 

 intermediate house, where plenty of ventilation is provided on all 

 favourable occasions ; it has usually been kept much too hot, and 

 too wet at the roots while at rest. 



Best Species 



V. Amesiana is a dwarf grower, and has a long spike of 

 white flowers that are usually prettily tinted with blush, and have 

 a deep reddish rose lip; the flowers are small, produced in late 

 Spring or early Summer. 



V. ccerulea is a lovely Orchid with stiff spikes of rounded, 

 blue flowers ; the flowers vary in the depth of their blue colouring, 

 some being of a wonderfully deep and rich shade, and measuring 

 as much as four or five inches across. As many as ten to fifteen 

 flowers may be carried on a spike. 



V. iNSiGNis has rounded, fleshy flowers ; white, light brown, 

 and bufi^, spotted with red-brown. In general appearance this species 

 resembles V. tricolor. 



V. KiMBALLiANA is of slender growth, and bears nodding 

 spikes of charming flowers. The individual blooms are white, 

 suff^used with rose, and with a yellowish, purple-spotted lip. 

 They are about two inches across, and ten or a dozen are carried 

 on a spike. 



V. LAMELLATA is dwarf, and flowers freely, its white, brown, 

 and magenta-purple flowers appearing, a dozen or twenty together, 

 in the Winter, on a spike about eighteen inches long. V. l. 

 BoxALLii is larger and brighter than the type. 



