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will bo scon from Scptoiiil)or to OctoLer. Tho colour is <'i rich 

 scarlet, tinted rose, with wliitc inurkin<j^s, and stron<j: plants can bo 

 jiurchased at about .3/- each, established or newly impoi-ted. 



Dexdrohu'.m jAMESiAXr.M. From Moulmein. 

 There are but fi^w Dendrobiums which can Ijo cultivated with 

 much success in a Cool house, but this species is suitable, and when 

 well growTi is a stately Orchid, producing fine trusses of large and 

 beautiful white and yellow blooms. The usual compost I have 

 recommended for Orchids suits it, and it can be grown in small 

 baskets suspended from tht; roof', near to the glass, and have i)lenty 

 of water when grov/ing, and dming the winter it should never be 

 ullowed to become dry enough for the pseudo bulbs to shrivel. 

 Strong plants, with one lead, are obtainable for about 5 - to 7 6 

 each; and, in pui-chasing this Orchid, it is best to obtain newly 

 imported or semi-established plants, as they start into growth 

 much more satisfactorily than old plants. 



CYPRirEUlUM IXSIGXE. From Xepaul. 

 This old species of the "Lady's Slipper'" is a great favourite, 

 and is found in almost every collection of plants in all gardens of 

 note throughout the country, and, like Coelogyne cristata and 

 Dendrobium nobile, it should be grov,Ti in pots in a compost of 

 fibrous peat, broken charcoal, silver sand and sphagnum moss. 

 The pots should be well drained to half of its depth, using pieces 

 of broken pots and large i)ieces of charcoal with a layer of sphagnum 

 over the drainage. In potting, let the compost be well worked in 

 amongst the roots and around them, making it moderately firm, 

 and watering carefully until the plants are established, then they 

 luxuriate — especially in the gi'owing summer season — in a liberal 

 supply of water. It is a very free blooming plant, throwing its 

 flowers in great numbers when the roots are pot-bound, but not so 

 large and of such good quality as when the roots have more free- 

 dom, and they do best on the stage, near to the glass, and where 

 there is as nmch light as possible. The flowers are of a pretty 

 gi'(K'nish yellow colour with white markings. There are now many 

 varieties of Cy|)ripedium insigne, such as Chantini. a bold form, 

 and one of the best, and moderately cheap, fully half of the dorsal 

 sepal being white, beautifully spotted with pui-ple. There is also a 

 handsome clear straw coloured variety named Sandero?, but it is 



