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necessary vigour to ensure a proper development 

 of its flowers. Water will be required but mode- 

 rately for the first two or three weeks, but after- 

 wards the quantity should be increased if the 

 plants are strong and healthy, until they have 

 completed their summer's growth; a very little 

 will then be sufficient during the time they are 

 at rest, which should be through the winter 

 months. 



These may be also grown in baskets prepared 

 the manner I have before directed, with the same 

 compost as for pots ; but I prefer the latter, for 

 the plant when in flower is thus seen to better 

 advantage. 



The genus Rodrigue^ia is an exception, which 

 will perhaps appear as appropriately placed on 

 a billet of wood or in a basket, as its flowers 

 being produced on a half-pendant raceme, would 

 show themselves most prominently. The tem- 

 perature for the whole, both in the growing and 

 resting season, should be the same as for the 

 Indian species. 



