PHALZENOPSTS. 415 
sphagnum, washed the roots and insides of the baskets or 
cylinders, and replaced the drainage and moss, without 
loosening a single live root. Should the plants require a 
shift into larger baskets or cylinders, it is almost always safest 
to place the old one inside the larger one and fill up with 
drainage. The finest examples of Phalenopsis ever grown 
were in the collection formed by the late Mr. Partington, ' 
of Slough. These plants had from six to eleven leaves 
each, and some of the leaves were 16in. long. Success in 
this case is supposed to be due to periodically dressing the 
gravel of the stages and path with salt. This may do good 
—it cannot do harm—and there does not appear to be any 
difference between the treatment here recommended and 
that practised by Mr. Partington’s gardener, except only 
in the use of salt. Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of the 
Clapton Nurseries, have long been famous for their success 
in importing and cultivating Phalenopses. The more 
popular species are represented in their nurseries by the 
thousand, and when in blossom they form a picture of 
the greatest beauty. The accompanying Plate, for which we 
are indebted to the Editor of the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” 
represents a Phalznopsis-house at Clapton. 
P. amabilis—A beautiful, free-flowering species, the 
flowers, if kept dry, remaining fresh for several weeks. 
It has thick, elliptical, lance-shaped, brownish - green 
leaves, divided obliquely by a prominent midrib. The 
flowers are borne in two opposite rows, on long, pendent, 
often branching racemes; they are jin. in diameter, and 
are entirely white except the lip, which, on the inner side, 
is spotted and streaked with rosy pink and yellow. In 
shape the sepals are broadly ovate, the petals being still 
broader and somewhat rhomboidal; the lip is three-lobed, 
the side lobes standing erect at each side of the column, 
