Gardening for Amateurs 



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purple lip. C. dowiana, 

 which also blooms in late 

 summer, the most beauti- 

 ful of the Cattleyas, is 

 pale yellow flushed with 

 crimson, and the gorgeous 

 lip is crimson-purple lined 

 Avith gold. In the variety 

 aurea the crimson flush is 

 absent, the flower being of 

 primrose tint. 



During the summer 

 months C. bicolor (bronze- 

 green and rose-purple), C. 

 Loddgiesii (pale lilac-rose), 

 C Skinneri (rose-purple), 

 and C. granulosa (olive- 

 green and crimson) pro- 

 duce their flowers. The 

 bulbs are two-leaved, and 

 longer than those of the 

 labiata group. C. Acland- 

 iae, a dwarf kind with 

 olive-green flowers blotch- 

 ed with purple and large 

 magenta - purple lip, also 

 blooms about August, and 

 may be grown in shallow 

 pans suspended from the 

 roof. The yel'ow C. cit- 

 rina is a great favourite, 

 and should be cultivated 

 on a block of wood in the 

 cool house. When hung 

 from a rafter its sweet- 

 scented blooms, which 

 open during the spring and 

 summer months, are seen to the best ad- 

 vantage. A few of the well-known Cattleya 

 hybrids are C. Iris (bicolor x aurea), C. 

 Mantini (bowringiana x aurea), C. Adula 

 (bicolor X hardyana), C. Lord Rothschild 

 (aurea x gaskelliana), and C. hardyana 

 (aurea x Warscewiczii). 



Cattleyas are easy to grow if they are not 

 kept in a stuffy atmosphere, and not too 

 heavily shaded. Repotting will take place 

 at intervals, owing to their flowering at 

 different periods of the year. In winter, and 

 after the pseudo-bulbs are fullv developed, 

 they may be kept fairly dry at the root, but 

 the plants must not suffer from drought to 

 such an extent as to cause the bulbs to shrivel. 



An old though pretty Orchid, especially suited to amateurs, 

 Cattleya bowringiana. 



Coelogyne. Coelogyne cristata is a 

 charming and easily grown OrchiH that 

 blooms in late winter and spring. It has 

 drooping racemes of large pure white flowers 

 marked with orange-yellow. In the varietv 

 known as lemoniana the marking is of 

 citron-yellow. The Coelogyne thrives either 

 at the warmest end of the cool house, or 

 among the Cattleyas ; flower-pans are more 

 suitable than- flower- pots, and should be 

 filled one-third of their depth with drainage. 

 The compost consists of osmunda fibre, peat, 

 and sphagnum moss in equal proportions. 

 Several leads or growing points (with four 

 pseudo-bulbs behind each) are needed to 

 make a nice compact specimen, and the 



