tlie sepals and petals are nankin-yellow, tlie lip . cream-coloured distinctly veined 



The plant blooms in May and June, 



over the interior surface with rose colour. 



and the flowers last in beauty for two or three w-eeks. 



This 



species is best growTi in 



a pot 



with rough fibrous 



peat and spliagnum 



moss, and should have good drainage, which is very essential for 



healthy condition of the roots of the plant ; indeed, unless a plant makes good roots, 



securing the 



and they are kept in a healthy condition, there is not much chance of its doinw 



are making their roots, it 



well for any 



length 



of time. When Orchids 



is important 



that all insects, and other destructive pests, should be kept away from them, so 



that their root-points may not be eaten aw^ay, but kept in a growing state. We 



have often seen the roots of Orchids eaten off by cockroaches and wood-lice, Lotli 



of which are most destructive to the roots of the plants. 



This LcsUa will also do well in baskets or pans suspended from the roof, or 



will even succeed on a block of wood ; but if grown in this way the plants will 



roots. It requires the same 



re quire 



more attention as regards moisture at the 



general treatment as L, 



purpurata, and should be grown in similar materials. 



Cymbidium affine. — At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, Novombcr 

 13th, there was exhibited by A. Wyatt, Esq., of Cheltenham, a grand specimen of 



this rarity, bearing two spikes, one with thirteen, the other with six 



flow 



b 



gethcr distinct from the other species of Cymbidium, and seems 



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rmediato 



C. Parishii and C. Maste 



The flowers are produced on upright spikes 



the sepals and petals are w^hite, and the lip white, having a few rosy pur] 



blotches and stains in the throat and 



on its anterior part 



The style of g 



le 

 th 



It was 



escmbles that of C. Parishii, and it has broad foliage as in that species. 



sketch of the 



of it to our 



deservedly 



ded a First Class Certificate. Our artist has take 



a 



plant, and we hope soon to be enabled to present a representation 



ibscribcrs 



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