Nurseries, Upper Holloway, and which flowered in February of the present season, 
the same plant having bloomed annually for several years in succession, 
Brassavola glauca is a compact-growing, robust and hardy evergreen plant, 
both the pseudobulbs and leaves being of a very glaucous hue, and the latter are 
very persistent. Its rhizome is stout and creeping, and its pseudobulbs short and 
numerous, the leaves being very coriaceous in texture.” The flowers are produced 
singly upon a short pedicel, which rises from the top of the pseudobulb; these 
are large and spreading, and deliciously sweet, this being particularly apparent 
towards the evening. The sepals and petals are spreading, nearly equal, obtuse, 
lanceolate, plain at the edges, and pale green with a few darker lines and streaks ; 
lip heart-shaped, rolled round the column at its base, the front portion expanded, 
more or less lobed at the edges, but entirely destitute of the fringe which is. 
such a conspicuous object in its near ally, B. Digbyana, figured in this work at 
plate 241. The whole is creamy white, more or less streaked in its throat 
with pinkish lilac. This plant in its young stages is best grown upon a_ block 
of wood or in a basket; if the latter, we prefer the shallow earthenware kind 
to those made of teak-wood, as the soil can be made firmer; and for Orchids 
especially young or small plants, this is a feature which cannot be too strongly 
impressed upon the minds of our readers. As the plant becomes larger and stronger 
it may with propriety be removed into a pot, and grown with other plants 
similarly situated, the temperature best suited to it being the Cattleya-house. 
During the resting season, after its growth is finished, we have found it thrive 
well at the warm end of the Odontoglossum-house, and the moisture of the 
atmosphere in this situation will be found almost sufficient for its wants. 
