for their curiosity would be peculiarly uninviting. All these plants like strong heat 
and a moist atmosphere during the growing season, but care must be taken to avoid 
wetting the young growths, for as the leaves imbricate or overlap each other, they 
hold the water, which lying in the growths causes them to become rotten and spoilt, 
and no amount of drainage at’ the roots can avail if water is allowed to accumulate 
in this manner. After the flowering and the growing season the water supply must 
be stopped, which will cause the leaves to turn yellow and fall away, when the 
plants may be removed to a much cooler house and be kept quite dry, except 
giving a little water occasionally in order to prevent shrivelling. Here they may 
be kept until the eyes show signs of moving, when they will require to be shaken 
out of their old soil and the dead roots cut away, repotting them into new soil, 
which should consist of brown peat fibre and chopped sphagnum moss, and using 
about the same size pot and well drained. Afterwards they may again occupy the 
old position for the growing season. 
