grown in this way it requires a rather frequent supply of moisture at the roots, 
Mr. Woolford, the gardener at Downside, grows it in a pot with rough fibrous peat 
and good drainage, in the same heat as recommended for Cattleyas. 
In potting the plant should be well elevated above the rim of the pot, so 
that the roots may have free scope to work among the potting material; a few 
pieces of charcoal introduced into the compost enables them to work about more 
freely, and the water, moreover, passes away all the more readily, and without getting 
stagnant. ‘This species does not require much water at the roots, only just sufficient 
to keep the bulbs and foliage in a plump condition. 
Lycaste SkINNERI.—We have received two splendid varieties of Lycaste Skinneri 
from Mr. Moore, gardener to W. Pickersgill, Esq., Blendon Hall, Bexley. The 
flowers are as large as any we remember to have seen. Mr. Moore informs us 
that on one of the plants from which the specimens were taken, are as many as 
twelve flowers on the same pseudobulb, a large number considering the enormous size 
of the individual blossoms. The two varieties are as follows :-— 
Lycaste Skinneri vestalis. This variety is quite new to us, and is the purest 
white variety we have seen saving L. Skinnevt alba, which is pure white. The 
flower measures seven inches across the sepals, which are one and three-quarters of 
an inch wide, pure white; the petals are also white, with a faint venation of pale 
rose on the inner surface; the lip is pure white, with very faint markings of 
pale rose. 
Lycaste Skinneri gloriosa. This variety also measures fully seven inches across ; 
the sepals are large and broad, of a pale pink colour; the petals rich rose colour, 
more especially on the inner surface, and the lip large, white, marked faintly with 
rose. It is a very handsome variety—B. S. W. 
