the more recently introduced species flowering at the same time as our present subject, 
which makes them more especially valuable, as we already had so many Cattleyas 
blooming during the spring and early summer months. In fact, we are now, thanks 
to these acquisitions, seldom without Cattleyas in flower. The energetic collectors who 
obtain them deserve our warmest thanks and the fullest encouragement for what they 
have done. We can scarcely doubt but that many more prizes will yet be found 
for them to introduce to the enrichment of our Orchid houses. 
Cattleya Brymeriana requires the temperature of the Cattleya house, and should 
be kept at the warmest end, and grown in a basket or pot with rough fibrous 
peat, and good drainage. It should be placed as near the glass as possible, for 
we find these plants require all the light we can secure to them, in order to ripen 
their pseudobulbs, Our sunny periods are so short, that much vigilance is required 
to make the most of every available agency to keep them in vigorous health, and 
no time or opportunity should therefore be lost in securing for them all the light 
they require. Good sweet material must be kept about their roots, and sufficient 
moisture to keep them in a plump state must always be applied. The roots must 
not be injured in potting, which operation should be effected just as they are starting 
to make their new buds. 
Insects should always be kept under, and never allowed to predominate, as they 
injure the plants and spoil their appearance. Bad or disfigured foliage takes a 
large percentage off the value of any specimen. 
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MASDEVALLIA Carima@rA AND M. Rogziit rusrum.—W. Vanner, Esq., of Chisle- 
hurst, has been kind enough to forward to us, for figuring, splendid examples of 
the flowers of the above distinct Masdevallias. The flower of M. Chimera was very 
large, extending seventeen inches from tip to tip; the ground colour was pale butt- 
yellow, heavily spotted with purplish brown, the tails were deep purplish brown, 
and the lip a dull reddish brown, the whole surface of the flower being covered 
with prominent yellow hairs. M. Roezlii rubrum is a species of great beauty, and 
is very rare; it belongs to the Chimera section, but the flowers are more trian- 
gular in shape; in this the tails were thirteen inches long from tip to tip; the 
ground colour of the flower was creamy yellow, heavily marked with reddish purple, 
the whole surface being covered with hairs of the same reddish purple hue.—B. S. Fe 
