able to succeed with a plant that presents some difficulties in its culture; and in 
the present case, if it gets the treatment it likes it will grow freely- enough, 
Our drawing was taken from a fine specimen plant in the choice collection of 
W. E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., Lsington House, Piddletown, Dorchester, where this 
Epidendrum is grown with great vigour by Mr. Powell, one spike on the plant 
having borne the unusual number of eighteen flowers. We hope other cultivators 
will follow so good an example. 
Epidendrum bicornutum is an evergreen species, with stem-like pseudobulbs 
about eight inches in height, furnished with light green foliage. The flower spikes 
grow about eighteen inches high, proceeding from the top of the stem when the 
growth is completed; they are upright, and produce twelve or more flowers, which 
are about two inches across, of good form, pure white, slightly spotted with liac- 
purple towards the centre. It blooms during April and May, each flower lasting 
fresh for two or three weeks, and the spike continuing to open its buds in 
succession until the last has been developed. 
This plant will thrive either on blocks or in baskets. We have grown it 
well on blocks with live sphagnum moss about its roots; but we prefer the small 
open teak baskets, with rough fibrous peat or sphagnum moss, lumps of charcoal 
being intermixed with the peat or moss, and good drainage secured. This plant 
requires but little material to grow in. It is found naturally on trees and rocks 
in very damp hot places, and consequently it thrives best in a very hot stove 
near the ridge of the roof, where it can receive as much light and sun as possible 
without burning the foliage. Our house stands south-east and north-west, and there 
it gets first the early morning sun, while as the sun gets higher, the power of its 
rays are somewhat broken by the ridge of the house, and then in the afternoon 
it gets the sun from the west, so that it is in the sun all day, with the ridge 
and rafters to ward off the hottest rays, which would burn the foliage. The plants 
hang in the same position all the year round; they should not be moved, but 
ee moist at the roots during the growing season, which is after the flowering 1s 
over during summer, and finishes in autumn, but during the summer they get 4 
slight syringing, and are often taken down ‘and soaked in water until the soil 1s 
yuite moist; during the time of rest, when the plants have finished their growth, 
they must get ily just sufficient to keep the bulbs and foliage plump. . 
This plant does not like to be disturbed: if doing well never meddle with it. 
Do not allow insects to attack it, or good results cannot be ensured. 
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