guided by it. Mr. Philhrick writes:—‘In Barkeria culture air is everything; the 
fullest freest circulation, no shade even in the hottest sun, but full in its rays— 
the more sun the better. When growing, keep watered, dipped over head as: often 
as you can. I often dip mine myself (they hang in an old vinery facing due 
south, at an end where no vines are) and put them back into full sun dripping 
wet; they like this, extraordinary as it sounds. 
I get sturdy growth and red- 
brown foliage. 
But, then, the plant is a true rambler; no pot or basket holds 
it, it is best on a branch of wood suspended in a basket, roots outside, and hanging 
down freely; hence you can treat it as I suggest. 
“In a common Orchid house, especially if with no air on at night, ‘it living 
doth languish, and languishing doth die.’ 
“T grow it as described from after the flower spikes are cut or over till they 
are coming on in November again, and then move it to cool end of Cattleya 
house to flower, and take back directly flowering is finished to the cold vinery, 1¢., 
frequently 45°, never over 51°. The plant I gave you a spike of bore two, the 
finer one [ kept, as it opened later than that I gave you. They keep five to 
six weeks in beauty.” 
Barkeria cyclotella is a deciduous plant, and produces its flower spikes from 
the top of the stems at the time they are making their growths. The blossoms 
are of a magenta-purple colour, and are produced during February and March, 
lasting some six weeks in bloom. 
SoBRALIA MACRANTHA.—Mr. Heims, gardener to F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., 
exhibited at the First Summer Show of the Royal Botanic Society, a wonderful 
specimen of this beautiful and much neglected Orchid. The plant bore about two. 
dozen large fresh flowers, It is many years since we have seen this Orchid so 
well exhibited.—B. S. W. 
