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"Water of course is essential. I water my plants once a day all the year 

 round except in the rains. Esccoss of water is liable to damage the plants, and 

 I find that bulbous orchids especially are liable to rot off in the rains. It is most 

 difficult to make the maJli understand how to moderate the supply of water, 

 and also to syringe the orchids instead of wateiing them from a bucket. In 

 the hot weather the floor should be kept well damped. It will help your ferns 

 as much as your orchids, and in my experience this is most essential in all fern- 

 eries, especially where you cannot have artificial tanks in the houses. 



There is a good deal also in selecting the right spot in which to place an 

 orchid in your fernery. This knowledge can only be obtained by carefully 

 watching the progress of your plants, and moving them about until the healthy 

 appearance and growth of your orchids indicate that they are in suitable 

 locahties. As regards the method of growing orchids, I find as a general rule 

 they do best in pots with charcoal and brick or broken potsherds and a little 

 moss on the surface, especially in the hot-weathor months. In the rains the 

 moss can be removed. Many orchids do well on slabs of teak, but when they 

 grow much they are too big for the wood and it i§ a troublesome task to remove 

 them. Terrestial orchids of course require the ordinary potting. Do not 

 attempt to grow hiU orchids in l^onjbay. Barton-Groves writes : — " It is use- 

 " less attempting to cultivate in the plains hill orchids which grow at an 

 "altitude above 2,000 ft. They will probably blossom the first season, but then 

 " either die off at once or dwindle away by degrees." 



Lastly, do not leave the charge of your orchids to your malli, for this will be 

 but to court failure. Orchid culture requires much patience and constant car^ 

 and attention, which only the madam sahib or sahib will give. 



Bombaij, 2Gth Januarij, 1892. M, C TURNER. 



No. II.-^*SEPTIC^MIA IN A DEER, 



The case in question occurred in a young, tame, female deer that had been 

 bitten by a dog. The owner being Ul, it was left to the care of native servants, 

 and was not properly attended to until 10 days after the injury had been 

 inflicted. When admitted to hospital on the 1-^th November, there was a large 

 wound on the near quarter, extending almost the whole length of the femur down 

 to the patella. The edges of the wound were deeply under-run, and the whole 

 was fly-blown, the triceps, external, vastus and ischio-tibialis muscles being in 

 ft gangrenous condition and sloughing. There was also a deep uloerated wound 

 at the back of the limb, about an inch above the point of the hock, and the 

 gastrocnemius tendon was badly torn, a large portion afterwards sloughing 

 away. The wound was cleaned, the gangrenous portion of the skin and 

 jnuscles removed, the whole irrigated with corrosive sublimate solution, 1 iq. 



- * The ai)07e apjjeared in the Veterinary Journal for January, 1892 

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