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by Mr. Gibson from the foot of the Khoseea Hills in India. The 

 best way to grow it is to procure a straight, thick branch of Oak, 

 and tie round it a thick covering of long moss, and then tie 

 several shoots of the Camarotis round it. The shoots send out 

 roots, which soon lay hold of the moss, and root into it pro- 

 digiously. During the growing seaason the plant should be 

 kept very moist with the syringe : it will grow stronger by this 

 treatment than by any other. It should then have a period of 

 rest, and will flower in the spring most profusely. 



CATTLE YA CITEINA. Here, again, is a lovely fragrant flower : 

 the plant that produces it requires a peculiar treatment, which 

 if not given the plant will die. That treatment is in accordance 

 with the habit of the plant in its mode of growth. The gene- 

 rality of even Orchids send their shoots upwards ; but this 

 species' sends them downwards : hence it is necessary to humour 

 it by fastening it on a log with the last-made pseudo-bulb under- 

 neath. So placed on the log, the plant appears to the un- 

 initiated to be, as it were, turned topsy-turvy, or upside down. 

 I have proved, however, repeatedly that grown in any other way 

 the plant will not long survive such wrong treatment. In every 

 other point of culture treat it the same as its congeners. 



EPIDENDRTTM BICOENUTTJM. This fine species when well 

 grown is almost as handsome as a Phalaenopsis j but it is a 

 rather delicate plant. The only way I could succeed with it 

 was to place it on the upper end of a thickish, round, short 

 branch cut level, and fasten it to the block with fine wire, on a 

 thin bed of moss. When grown in a pot or on a log in the 

 ordinary way the young shoots invariably perished, and in time 

 the plant died, as a matter of course ; but when planted on the 

 top of a branch the young shoots grew and perfected pseudo- 

 bulbs, which in due season flowered well. The branch was not 

 suspended, but placed upon a shelf not far from the glass. 



EPIDEKDETJM EHIZOPHOEFM. This species has very long, 

 slender shoots, and the brilliant flowers are produced near the 

 top. To bring them within view the plants should be grown in 



