character. The flowers proceed from the axils of the leaves, in racemes growing 
on short scapes, the racemes continuing to produce fresh flowers until the spike js 
exhausted. The sepals and petals are of a creamy white, the lower half of the 
sepals being of a light mauve colour; the lip is of a bright mauve, with yellow 
crests. It blooms during the autumn months, and continues flowering for a long 
time. 
This Phalenopsis requires the same treatment as others of its class, The heat 
of the East India house suits it, and it grows well in sphagnum moss and charcoal 
mixed together, requiring but little moss. We find the plan of cultivating them in 
baskets very suitable, as they like to throw their roots out into the moist atmos- 
phere of the house, which is. their natural habit. The moss used should always 
be kept sweet and in a growing condition, as these plants are very susceptible of 
having sour or bad material about them. They must be carefully shaded from the 
burning sun, but they like a light place, in order that. their foliage may acquire 
stoutness and firmness, and not grow sappy, as we often see it, which causes the 
failures in cultivation so prevalent in this genus. We frequently see the plants 
succeed for a time and then fail. Our opinion is, that they are grown too freely 
and sappy. The best cultivated plants we have observed, were seen, some years 
ago at Broomfield, in Mr. R. Warner's collection ; they were in a house 40 feet in 
length, and 20 feet in width, and produced both fine foliage and flower spikes, 
some—such as P. Schilleriana, with a hundred or more flowers upon it, P. grandi- 
Jlora, with very noble spikes, also large spikes of P. amabilis and P. Portei. We 
ourselves have exhibited P. grandiflora with as many as seventy flowers on a plant; 
this specimen was exhibited for several years at Chiswick and Regent’s Park Shows, 
and was grown in a house 50 feet long and 24 feet wide, with a mixed collection 
of Orchids. P. amabilis was cultivated by the side of it. We did not then have 
the chance that Orchid growers of the present day possess, and thought ourselves 
fortunate in having one good plant of each kind, which had to be made use of 
for several shows every year. We mention this to show Orchid growers that these 
plants can be grown mixed with other Orchids. The great thing is to choose young 
sturdy healthy plants to begin with. We bought a P. Schilleriana, last year, that 
had been grown with a mixed collection of Ferns, Palms, and Orchids, where it 
took its chance with the rest, and we must say that it is most healthy looking, 
the foliage of good substance and perfect ; it is now showing its branching spikes, 
and blooms well every year, 
