122 orchids: now to grow them successfully. 



rapid progress and speedily bloom, and every encouragement 

 should then be given the j)lant to make healthy growth, by giving 

 it abundance of light, heat, and moisture. The sepals and petals 

 are pure white, handsomely margined with bright pink, and in 

 the centre of the flower are orange and chocolate blotches. 



Phal.exopsis Schilleriana. From the East Indies. 



This Orchid is one that has baffled many good grovv^ers, even 

 those v»^ho have everything that is necessary to successful cultivation 

 within their reach, yet from some unexplainable reason they fail to 

 make much headway with this plant. This is somewhat difficult to 

 understand, as others who only give ordinary care and attention 

 obtain excellent results, much seeming to depend upon the house in 

 which it is grown. I, however, advise everyone to give it a trial, 

 for, if the place suits it, the plant is of great interest, even v/hen 

 not in bioom, on account of its handsome foliage. 



Its handsome flowers are produced on long branching spikes, 

 from December to February, and are of a soft pale mauve tint, and 

 it should be grown in baskets suspended near the glass on the 

 shady side of the house, too much bright light being injurious, and 

 it should be placed into the basket in much the same way as recom- 

 mended for Aerides odoratum, simply fixing in the sphagnum over 

 a good drainage of crocks and charcoal, and the foliage will then 

 droop over the sides of the basket. Give a Hberal supply of water 

 during the summer, but less, and with great discretion, during the 

 winter, never allowing the sphagnum to get dust dry, or the plant, 

 having no pseudo bulbs, will lose its foliage, which is prejudicial to 

 future growth. It should be grown at the warmest part of the 

 house and its leaves occasionally sponged to keep down insects, 

 using tobacco powder if thrip appears. 



Phalsenopsis are at times injuriously affected by a watery spot 

 forming on the leaves, and this should at once be cut away with a 

 sharp knife or it will soon spread and eat away the leaf, and 

 generally sj^eaking, when this disease occurs, the idea of suc- 

 cessfully growing the plant may be abandoned. The spot is 

 often produced from some fault in management, such as from a 

 very cold temperature, keeping the plants saturated in winter, or 

 some other cause. 



Good plants, suitable for growing on and established, should 

 be purchased at from 10/6 each. 



