106 oncaibs: MOW TO GUIOW TIIUM SUCCESSFULLY. 



over with a syringe once a day. The new compost must be kept just 

 moist only, and on no account should it become saturated until the 

 summer is further advanced and active growth sets in. It is always 

 an important point in repotting Orchids to use a few neat sticks firmly 

 fixed into the crocks, to which some of the pseudobulbs can be tied, in 

 order to make the entire plant secure and not shake about in handling 

 the pot, or it does not readily get re-established. This Dendrobe does 

 not last long in flower, but the grower is amply compensated by the 

 great beauty of the flowers, which are white and yellow, and borne on 

 drooping racemes. When in a growing state this plant requires a 

 reasonable amount of water, and as it is an evergreen kind it does not 

 require so much rest as most of the other kinds of Dendrobiums during 

 winter, and when kept in a dry state it should never be allowed to 

 shrivel on any account, and kept at the warmest end of the house and 

 well up to the light. Yellow thrip are sometimes troublesome on this 

 species, but may be kept down by sprinkling or puffing tobacco powder 

 down the new growths and over the foliage, and should they make too 

 much headway, then resort to fumigation also. Although this species 

 grows well in this house, it also does well in a Warm house. 



Good established plants of this Orchid should be purchased for 

 about 5s. per leading growth, but I recommend purchasing newly 

 imported plants which have arrived in the spring , such plants are likely 

 to give much greater satisfaction, and they should then be purchaseable 

 in extra strong pieces at from 3s. 6d. to 5s. per leading growth. 



LJELIA ANCEPS. From Mexico. 



This is a very lovely and easily cultivated Orchid which comes into 

 flower in November and December, producing freely flowers of a 

 charming rose colour, with the labellum richly coloured and much 

 darker than the sepals and petals in short, the colour varies from 

 light rose to very dark rosy crimson, and the most valuable of the 

 varieties, excluding the white, are those which are very dark in colour. 



This Orchid may be grown in pots on the stage or in baskets 

 suspended from the roof, and they should be repotted during the 

 month of March, using peat and sphagnum in equal proportions, first 

 half filling the pot with drainage and keeping the compost moist, but 

 not too wet, for about five or six weeks afterwards, when they can be 

 watered more freely ; in fact, well soaked by dipping in the tank, 

 especially when the sphagnum has a whitish appearance. When the 

 growth is finished in the autumn, watering may be again reduced, but 

 the plants must not be allowed to suffer from drought until they have 

 finished flowering, then only enough water is required, until March, 

 to prevent shrivelling. 



If it is possible to give a small portion of the house full sunlight 

 by not shading it, but not allowing other plants to suffer, this Orchid 



