November 23, 1892.] 



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white centre. This is a shade-loving plant, and needs no. 

 special attention if g^rown in a temperature of sixty degrees. 



The Torrenias, also, are admirable plants for this purpose, 

 T. Asiatica being the most scandent in habit, and producing 

 its four-lobed flowers of purple and white in the utmost pro- 

 fusion, an abundance of water and plenty of light being the 

 essential points of culture. During the summer months there 



The Cultivation of Cattleyas. 



T OOKING backward forty years, in the garden literature of 

 ■'-' that period, nothing is more striking, when we compare 

 them with the periodicals of to-day, than the absence of 

 Orchid notes. Collections of these plants were unknown out- 

 side of a few botanical gardens, and their cultivation was so 



Fig. 96. — New Chrysanthemum, Golden Wedding, reduced one-third. — See page 556. 



are few more showy objects in the conservatory than some 

 well-filled baskets of Achimenes, the tubers of which should 

 be started beforehand, and then planted around the sides of 

 the basket. By this method a complete mass of foliage and 

 bloom will ultimately be secured, providing warmth and 

 moisture and some shade are given. 



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little understood that the plants rarely lived long. Now that 

 we adopt a more rational system, the majority of plants can 

 be made happy for a number of years, if not an indefinite 

 period ; for, while it is possible to grow Cypripediums for all 

 time if their wants are supplied, the same is not true of some 

 other genera and species, and cultivators well know how 

 difficult it is to maintain in vigorous health some of the Cat- 



