out of favour, which is probably the reason that they are now so little known. 
C’. punctatum is, however, deserving of all the care that can be bestowed upon it. 
Some persons seem to think these plants are difficult to flower, but in this respect 
they resemble most other Orchids: if they are not well grown they do not give 
the desired results. Our drawing of C. cardiochilum was taken from a grand 
specimen in the collection of 8. K. Mainwaring, Esq., Oteley Park, Shrewsbury, 
where it blossomed under the care of Mr. Bland, the gardener, who is known to. 
be a most successful cultivator of plants. 
Cyrtopodium cardiochilum has tall fusiform stems, which grow about three feet 
high, and are clothed towards the top with foliage of a palm-like character. The 
panicles of flowers are produced from the base of the stem, on a distinct scape, at 
the same time as the young leaf-growths make their appearance; this scape attains 
the height of four feet, and its ramifications continue to develop flowers for some 
time. The sepals and petals and lip are all yellow, the sepals being tinged with 
green. It flowers during the spring months. 
This plant requires plenty of pot room, as it is free-rooting. It is best grown 
in rough fibrous loam, and the addition of a little rotten dung will help its growth. 
It must have good drainage—about two inches in depth—and during the growing 
season it should be kept in the East India house and supplied with plenty of 
water, when it will make its roots freely, but the young growth should not be 
wetted, as this might cause it to rot. After the growth is completed it should be 
temoved to the Cattleya house, keeping it rather dry until it again commences to 
grow and to flower; when this occurs it may be replaced in the East. India house, 
and a little water should be given to encourage the leaves and flower-spikes to 
develope to advantage. 
These Cyrtopods will repay all the care that may be bestowed upon them. 
They should have all the light that can be given them, requiring shade only when 
the sun is very powerful. 
Mr. Suaw’s Orcutps. (Continued from Plate 175.) 
We saw here, suspended from the roof, a grand plant of Masdevallia Chimera, 
which had produced no less than thirty flowers hanging from the basket in which 
it grew, and which had a fine effect; the curious yellow and brown-spotted blossoms 
of this plant, with their long tails, have quite a quaint appearance. Sophronites 
grandiflora was very showy, and we were glad to see it so well grown. There 
were some fine Dendrobes, such as Dendrobium densiflorum and D. thyrs ~~ 
growing splendidly in the warm part of the Odontoglossum house, where Mr. Shaw 
gore they had been kept for the past year, and they were remarkably healthy.— 
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