This is a free-growing plant, which thrives in an admirable manner if its 
Tequirements are properly administered to; this is an important factor in the culti- 
vation of all subjects. [f it be found that a particular plant does not succeed 
under one mode of treatment, another system should be tried until success is 
attained; but care should be taken to give each trial sufficient time to be thoroughly 
tested, for plants do not at once spring rapidly from one state to another, but 
require attention and watchful care to restore them if in a bad condition. It is 
well to procure a healthy subject to start with, if possible; but sometimes one 
becomes possessed of a plant which sadly lacks vigour, and we have found from 
experience that unhealthy Cattleyas are frequently very difficult to restore to a 
flourishing condition. They require careful attention in the matter of heat and 
moisture, and situation we have found to be of the greatest importance. For 
instance, when a Cattleya has become shrivelled and unhealthy, we have found it a 
good plan to place it in a shady position, where it may be supplied with moisture 
about its stems and foliage; but this, again, requires thought, as much depends 
upon the season of the year. If the weather be hot, a slight syringing in the 
morning and afternoon will be highly beneficial, until the stems plump up and 
commence to root, when the plant or plants should be gradually inured to more 
light, care being exercised with regard to the moisture supplied, when it will recover 
vigour and health. When plants are in a sickly condition, they should never be 
allowed to bear any flowers—a process which exhausts them very much—and _ their 
energies will be better exerted in the production of new growth. Thus every plant 
in a collection should be under the watchful care of a responsible head, whose chief 
aim is to see that every plant is thriving, and upon the least sign to the contrary, 
at once set about its restoration. The plant will have been suffering some little 
time before its condition is noticeable, and will require immediate attention, as 
delays in such cases are often serious and dangerous, 
We find the Cattleya in question succeeds either in a pot or hanging basket, 
but in both cases it must be kept near the roof-glass, in order to afford it as much 
light as possible. It should be potted in good fibrous peat, from which all the 
fine particles have been shaken, to which may be added a little chopped sphagnum 
_ moss, the object in chopping the latter being to allow of its mixing in a better 
manner with the peat fibre. In potting or basketing the plants, a few nodules of 
charcoal should be added from time to time, which allows the roots more freedom, 
and also assists in keeping the soil more sweet about them. The drainage must 
also be ample and thorough, as the roots require a fair amount of water during 
active growth; but it requires to be carried quickly away, and everything about 
them should be kept in a sweet and healthy condition. 
