SUMMEE TREATMENT MAY AND JUNE. 23 



encourage the flowering of such plants let them be steeped in 

 tepid water once or twice during the month. 



Some Denbrobiums will now be in bloom, remove such into a 

 cooler house to prolong their bloom. 



MAT. Attend to shading as directed for last month. Give 

 an hour's longer shade at each end of the day. Continue to 

 repot all the plants not done last month. This is the month for 

 repotting the plants growing in the cooler house such, for 

 instance, as Cattleyas, Oncidiums, Lselias, and Epidendrums. 

 The drooping-flowering varieties as they go out of bloom should 

 be put into fresh baskets and fresh soil. Should it not be 

 thought advisable to repot or rebasket any plants, such should 

 have the pots clean-washed and the top part of the old compost 

 removed without injuring the roots, then put on a surfacing of 

 fresh compost, and give an ample watering. 



The quantity of water given to the plants may be increased 

 during this month. The Indian species such as JErides, 

 Vandas, and their allies, should have abundance of water now to 

 encourage growth in both roots and shoots. The temperature 

 during this month should reach the highest point. 



Use the syringe freely morning and evening, avoiding the 

 flowers as much as possible. During this month slugs and 

 cockroaches will be numerous; see to their destruction most 

 diligently. Yisit the house with a candle or bull's-eye lantern 

 after dark, and kill all those enemies you can find. 



Observe the flowers as they open, and remove them either 

 into a cooler house, or to the cooler and most airy part of the 

 house where there is but one devoted to these plants. 



JUNE. South American plants during this month will be 

 growing rapidly, Catesetums and Cyrtopodiuins especially. 

 Such should be regularly watered, increasing the quantity as the 

 shoots advance in size taking care, however, that no water 

 lodges in the hollows formed by the young leaves. I have used 

 beneficially to Cyrtopodiums a weak liquid manure just at the 

 period when they were growing most freely. This enriched 



