during the period of active life, and at the same time the plant should be removed 
to a cooler temperature, with an abundance of air, sun and light; here it may 
remain until all the leaves have fallen, and should then be kept cool and dry through 
the winter months. When spring returns a little more heat and moisture may 
be given with advantage, which will start the young growths and the flower buds 
into activity. The plant is best grown upon a block of wood or in a hanging 
basket, in good brown peat fibre and chopped sphagnum moss, but it does not 
require a great quantity of soil about its roots. 
SPECIMEN OrcHIDS AT GoUuvILLE, France.—When recently on a visit to the 
collection of Orchids owned by M. le Comte de Germiny, we were much astonished 
to see the fine specimens of Orchids that exist in this collection. At the time 
of our visit we noticed Celogyne barbata with twenty-three expanded spikes of 
flowers, a quantity quite unprecedented, we believe; the plant, when grown to such 
perfection, is one of the finest objects imaginable. Cattleya Bowringiana was also 
blooming with twenty-six spikes, and formed quite a floral display by itself. 
Large quantities of fine plants of Odontoglossum Pescatore. were throwing up 
their spikes. We noticed a magnificent specimen of Cymbidium eburneum showing 
twenty of its spikes, which looked the picture of health. Specimens of Angrecum 
sesquipedale were also promising well for flower, as well as <Aérides Lawrencee 
and other East Indian plants. We were much pleased to see an old friend, 
Odontoglossum nevium majus, represented by two fine specimens, one having upwards 
of fifty bulbs; it is very rarely one meets with good plants of this old and 
much neglected species now-a-days. The collection at Gouville is in excellent con- 
dition, and does great credit to Mr. P. Vincent, the able gardener. 
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