of The Woodlands, Streatham, and by specimens in the collection of Baron Sir Henry 
Schroeder, of The Dell, Egham, and others. 
Cymbidium Lowianum is a fine strong-growing evergreen plant, producing long 
spikes of bloom very freely, each bearing from twenty to thirty flowers. We have 
been told that some plants yield as many as forty and fifty upon a single spike, 
but we have invariably noticed that where the greatest numbers have been recorded, 
they have been of such poor varieties as not to have been worthy of the name 
Lowianum. The plant being of strong growth and of large rooting proclivities, it 
requires ample room for its roots to ramble. Drain the pots well, placing above 
the drainage material a good layer of sphagnum moss, and for soi] use good fibrous 
peat and light turfy loam, in the proportion of two parts of the latter to one of 
the former, the whole to be chopped up somewhat roughly with the spade; some 
sharp sand can also be used during the operation of potting. Do not pot this 
plant upon a raised mound of soil, but rather pot it far enough below the pot’s 
rim so as to enable one to administer a good supply of water to the roots at one 
time, for these plants require a quantity of moisture during the growing season, 
as well as light sprinklings overhead from the syringe. During the resting season 
they must be kept fairly moist, and at no time of the year must the soil be 
allowed to become dry, for in the winter, sometimes early in the month of 
December, the spikes will begin to push up, continuing to grow till the month 
of February, or even later; it would therefore not answer to keep the plants 
dry, but during these dull months the syringe may be laid on one side. The flowers 
last fully four or five months in beauty after they are open. On account of these 
plants being such robust growers, many persons have been induced to feed them 
with liquid manure, and in many instances we have observed the ill effects produced 
by this course of treatment; we therefore strongly urge our readers not to be led 
away by any specious argument in its favour. When growing, the plant likes the 
temperature of the. Cattleya house, with a nice moist atmosphere, but when not 
growing, a temperature of 50° will be ample, but with a drier air. 
CatTLeya Mosst# Harpy#.--This plant flowered last June with Mr. Hardy, in 
his grand collection of plants of this genus, and it is a perfect gem. The flowers 
are large, and as beautiful as Cattleya Wageneri, which it much resembles, being 
wholly of the purest white, saving a shade of orange yellow in the throat; the front 
lobe is tinged with soft heliotrope, which gives it a pleasing and distinct appearance. 
It is at once a valuable and desirable .addition to the many varieties of Cattleya 
now in cultivation.—W. H. 
