98 okchid-gkowek's manual. 



The A'erides should be kept perfectly free from insects, 

 especially the different kinds of scale. There is a small 

 kind in particular which is apt to infest them, and which, if 

 allowed to iQcrease, will speedily make the plants look yellow 

 and unhealthy. It may be kept under by washing with warm 

 water and soft-soap, applied with a sponge, and left on the 

 leaves for some twenty-four hours, when all remains of the 

 soap should be removed with clean water. They are also 

 subject to the attacks of the red Thrips, especially on the 

 young leaves ; this can be kept down by frequent applications 

 of tobacco powder, or fumigation ; if allowed to remain these 

 red Thrips considerably damage the young growth, turning 

 it red and brown. The black Thrips sometimes attacks the 

 older leaves and disfigures them very much ; they should be 

 eradicated by frequent fumigation and sponging. 



These plants are propagated by cutting them into pieces, with 

 roots attached to each piece. Some kinds, however, are shy in 

 throwing up young shoots, and this makes these sorts very 

 scarce. Those of the A. odoratum group are the most easy to 

 increase, and A. crispum sends out roots more freel}^ than some 

 others. If the plants ever get into an unhealthy condition, 

 the best way is to cut away the bottom portion and give the 

 remainder fresh moss, with j)lenty of water at the roots. 



A. afflne, WaUich. — A beautiful dwarf species, producing 

 leathery bluntly two-lobed leaves, a foot long, spotted with 

 brown, and bearing erect spikes of light rose-coloured 

 flowers, spotted on the lip, which is lozenge-shaped and 

 entire, with a darker shade of the same colour ; it blooms in 

 June and Jul3\ This plant, which is of slow-growing habit 

 does not root freely, and requires less moisture than an}- of 

 the other kinds. — India. 



FiG.—Lindl. Serf. Oi'ch., t. 15. 



Syn.— ^. multiflorum; A. roseum, Hort. 



A. afflne SUperbum, Hort., is a fine variety, much stronger 

 in growth than the type ; the flowers are also larger, and of a 



