three weeks or a month without distressing the plant. This plant is of | 
culture, and we prefer to grow it in a pot, for although it will thrive. 
hanging basket or on a raft, we find it requires more care and attention, 
yielding the slightest additional improvement either in the strength of the 
or quantity of blossoms produced. It roots freely and requires a liberal ‘supply 
water to maintain it, and enable it to develop large and vigorous bul 
which shall afterwards produce an abundance of flowers. After growth is ms 
the supply of water must be gradually reduced, untill it stops entirely, and 
plant may be allowed to become quite dry; but during the season care must 
taken that the pseudobulbs do not shrivel, as when this occurs the plant 
weakened. The pots must be well drained, and the plants potted in good | 
peat from which all the fine particles have been beaten, and to this should 
added some small potsherds, or a few nodules of charcoal to keep the whole | 
and porous. This plant does not like the coolest house, and we have found 
thrive best when placed at the coolest end of the Cattleya or eae 
where it should enjoy an abundance of light, and be lightly shaded ¢ 
hottest part of the day, otherwise the leaves are apt to become scorche 
disfigured—and one of the chief beauties of any plant lies in its perfect fi 
