the flowers, the sepals and petals are of the purest white, and the lip is also 
white “except a faint tinge of pale rose on the disc and the inner side of the 
lateral lobes, which are stained with lemon-yellow. This is a plant which, like the 
species, enjoys all the sun and light which we can give it, and therefore it should 
be hung up or placed close to the glass in the warmest house during the growing 
season, at which time an abundance of moisture is necessary, both in the atmos- 
phere and to its roots, and the syringe should be kept constantly going. At this 
season the East Indian house is the proper position for it, but after growth is 
finished, in order to give the plants a thorough rest, and to enable them to ripen 
the growth well, we advise the entire cessation of water, after which the 
plants should be removed to the Cattleya or intermediate house; here they should 
be kept both cool and dry, or nearly so, but the leaves should never be allowed 
to shrivel. In the spring months the flower spikes will begin to show, when 
the plants must be removed to their former warmer position, and water again be 
given them, moderately at first, but the quantity may be increased as the days 
lengthen and the sun brightens. The various forms of Vanda teres flower very 
freely with us, and we trust the variety here depicted will prove equally floriferous. 
The house in which we grow these Vanda teres is one devoted to the culture of 
Crotons and similar plants, and which is never shaded. The Vandas are grown in 
well-drained pots, the compost used being simply a mixture of sphagnum moss, mixed 
with various-sized nodules of charcoal. The plants when potted are plunged in a 
layer of sphagnum moss, and placed close up to the glass, being freely 
watered with the syringe. We have plants varying from a foot to eighteen inches 
and two feet in height, grown in this manner, and they flower most profusely every 
season ; when these plants become too tall for the position in which they stand, 
they are cut down, and the tops are potted in a similar mixture to that 
recommended above for the old plants. At first these tops receive a somewhat 
shaded treatment, until they make fresh roots and become established, and _after- 
wards they are placed in the full sun alongside the older plants. 
