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three parts full with crocks, adding a little rouoh fibrous peat and a small quantity 

 of charcoal mixed with it, so that the plants may be well elevated above the rim, 

 and thus be enabled to throw out their roots freely, while at the same time the 

 water may pass off quickly. If they are grown in baskets, the same treatment 

 may be given. A little water at the roots will suffice, as these plants do not like 

 too much moisture. The soil must be kept moist during the growing season, but 



in their resting season only just sufficient must be given to keep their bulbs and 

 leaves plump. As soon as they begin to show flow^er more water may be supplied 

 in order to encourage the spikes to come out more freely. If grown on a block 

 a Uttle live sphagnum moss should be placed about their roots, and this must be 

 kept moist during the growing season. When they are at rest a little less quantity 

 will do until they commence to show their flowers. 



Mil. Warner's Orchids.— Those 



Odontoglossums and Masdevallias 



grown and flowered as they should be, should pay a visit to the renowned collection 

 of Orchids at Broomfi(4d, Chelmsford. After having inspected the principal collections 

 both in Europe and America, we have not the slightest hesitation in saying that 

 •Ins IS one of the finest displays of flowering Orchids ever brought together. These 



OdniiLoglorisums arc grown by the thousand, Mr. Warner havino- sent a collector to 



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New Gren;ida, a^ few years ago, to select and bring home the best varieties. This has 

 iH'sulted in getting together a collection of about 12,000 Odontoglots, comprising all 

 the best species and varieties known to cultivators. On entering the Odontoglossum 

 hoii<^o we wciv enchanted with the sight before us. Let the reader imagine a large 

 house sixty feet long by sixteen feet wide, with a centre and two side tables, 

 literally eraumied with flowering Orchids, consisting of hundreds of spikes of Odonto- 



iossums and Mu^devallia^, intermixed with a profusion of the beautiful Epidendnm 

 r|<e//t;i||>u mtjm and other Orchids, and he will form some idea of the mngnitude of 



show. Leaving the Odontoglossum house we entered the MasdevalHa house, 

 uhore there was also a grand display, among which we noticed particularly M. 

 narryn.m afrosangidnea, a fine form with large crimson-magenta flowers, measuring 



^^o and a half niches long by two inches broad ; M. Dennisoniana, with richly 

 c^uml flowers, two and a half by two and a quarter inches ; and M. Harryana 

 (onffijfora, a varirty with immense flowers, having blossoms three inches by two and a 



ot a rosy nmgenta colour, faintly striped with a darker tint of the same colour. 

 n , , , ^^'^^^' ^^^^^^^ ^^^« another house about forty feet long filled with flowering 



OJun oglossunis, Masdevallins, and other things, a perfect fairyland as viewed from 



onil T'' J'lr''^ ?'' ^''"''' ""^ '^^^ *« t^^ Cattleya house where, although the 

 hlnnl ' . ^ ' '' """^ ^''°'' ^^''^ ^'^ nevertheless some fine vaiieties in 



\U^\r'' '"^""' ^ ""^ "^'^ purp,rata and the ever varvin^ Cattleya Mossice. 



In ndditi(.u to 



