The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



grown among Cattleyas, it should be transferred 

 to the cool house to flower, and the amateur need 

 not concern himself much if he be unable to give 

 it more warmth at any time. 



In another respect also the natural law must be 

 broken. We are told that the plants favour bare 

 slabs of limestone, over which the water flows all 

 day and night during the tremendous rains of 

 Nepaul; whilst in the heat, not less tremendous, 

 they burn the hand. Accordingly the pseudo-bulbs, 

 sleek as an egg while that deluge lasts, wither and 

 shrivel to the size of marbles. If we suffered them 

 to do so, all our skill and attention would not 

 bring them round again. They should not be per- 

 mitted to shrink at all that is, the bulbs of the 

 season just finished, which we expect to flower 

 presently. The Anglo-Indian may protest that such 

 treatment is an outrage on nature, and nobody 

 can say a word in its defence theoretically. The 

 plants ought to rot if kept moist at a season when 

 they are dried like sticks at home. One can only 

 reply " They don't," and yield the argument. 



Coelogyne cristata flowers just as the young growth 

 is pushing, from January to March. It was intro- 

 duced as long ago as 1837, and the examples we 

 have multiply so fast that there is not the slightest 

 call for new stock. Nepaul. 3s. 6d. 



