This plant is best grown in a small pan or basket, suspended near the light, 
but shaded from the burning sun. The material we use is sphagnum moss, with 
good drainage. It will also do on blocks of wood, but when grown on these more 
water is required. These plants always like a little moisture about them, as they have 
no thick fleshy pseudobulbs to support them. ‘They do well in the East Indian — 
house. 
These small plants should be kept free from insects. The black thrips some- 
times attacks them, so that they require to be watched, and from time to time 
cleansed. ‘ 
Rare Orcuips at StREATHAM.—When visiting the collection of Orchids belonging 
to R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, we were much pleased to see in 
flower a few floral gems which it does not often fall to one’s lot to admire. Foremost 
among these was the beautiful little Saccolabiwm Hendersoni, and a very fine form 
it was, growing most luxuriantly on a block of wood plunged in a pot. Muiltoma 
candida grandiflora was also blooming profusely, as well as the rare M. Regnellu 
purpurea, which was a fitting companion for it. The new Dendrobium cruentwm 
was also in flower; this is a very distinct species, belonging to the nigro-hirsute 
section; the sepals and petals are yellowish green, reticulated with a darker green, 
and the lip is yellowish green, margined distinctly with bright crimson-scarlet, and 
having the crests and side lobes of the lip marked with the same colour. Mr. 
Measures, although only commencing Orchid culture, has evidently hit upon a right 
plan—one which, were others to follow it, we should hear of fewer disappointments. 
His method is to make notes of good species and varieties that he sees or reads 
of, and to procure good healthy plants of these only, for, he says, and rightly 
too, that good things take up no more room than inferior or bad ones, and, 
although they cost more in the first outlay, they yield the greatest pleasure in the 
end.—H. W. : 
CaTTLEYA -BRYMERIANA.—W, E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., Dorchester, has favoured 
us with a grand spike of this new Cattleya; it bears six flowers, and 1s both 
distinct and beautiful. The sepals and petals are pale rose colour, the lip square 
at the apex and flat, bright magenta, the ‘upper portion surrounding the column 
folded closely over in the same way as that of Lelia elegans; throat bright orang’ 
We should be inclined to take it to be a natural hybrid between Lelia elegans 
and Cattleya Eldorado.—B. 8. W. 
