36 LJELIA PAPHINTA EENANTHEEA. 



a wide, shallow basket lined with moss, and filled with the usual 

 compost. Then every shoot should be bent down, and coiled 

 round and round within the basket, which should be suspended 

 near the glass. In time there will be a dense mass of shoots, 

 the ends of which will just turn up a few inches, and thus when 

 in flower there will be a large number of umbels of scarlet 

 flowers truly splendid. It is a hardy species, and will bear a 

 low temperature in winter when at rest. 



LJELIA SUPERBIENS. Another odd-growing species. The 

 peculiar treatment that it needs is simple enough. It neither 

 requires a pot, a basket, or a log. All that is needful is to sus- 

 pend it from the roof without anything at all but the wire to 

 hang by. In that way the large splendid specimen lately in the 

 gardens at Chiswick was cultivated, and no plant ever grew 

 better, or produced finer flowers and new pseudo-bulbs annually. 

 Whoever procures a plant of this fine species should profit by 

 this example, and treat his plant in that peculiar way. 



PAPHINIA CEISTATA. A West Indian plant, producing 

 large and beautiful flowers. It requires a peculiar treatment to 

 grow it well. Take a wide, shallow pot, drain it well ; then 

 have ready a number of square- cut pieces of fibrous peat ; with 

 these form a wall, as it were, on the margin of the pot, and fill 

 in the inside with rough peat and sphagnum moss ; then place 

 round a second layer of the square pieces, drawing them a little 

 inwards, and fill up again with the compost. Proceed so till the 

 space at the top is just large enough to hold the plant ; then 

 place it on it, and fix it there with more square blocks of peat. 

 It will then stand upon,as it were, a pyramid of peat, and will 

 soon grow quickly and flower freely. So placed it will bear a 

 free supply of water, which it needs to grow satisfactorily. It 

 is a lovely species, worthy of ah 1 care. 



BENANTHEEA COCCINEA. An old, well-known plant, and very 

 splendid when in flower, in which state, through mismanage- 

 ment, it is rarely seen. It may, however, be flowered annually 

 if the following culture is adopted. I suppose the reader has 



