ordinary variety which flowered with us in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, and 
was drawn by our artist, Miss Gertrude Hamilton. Any amateur possessing a plant 
of this variety, which has not flowered, may reasonably expect as good a form. 
Laelia grandis tenebrosa is a robust evergreen plant which grows freely and 
flowers profusely. Recently it has become elevated to specific rank under the name 
of ZL. tenebrosa, but there is a great similarity to L. grandis, as will be seen by 
comparing the two figures named. It comes from the neighbourhood of Bahia, and 
consequently requires more heat and moisture than plants coming from farther south, 
otherwise it grows well under the same treatment as L. purpurata, Laelio-Cattleya 
elegans and others which require a little more heat during the winter months than 
is accorded Cattleya Trianae and others of the labiata group. When the plant has. 
finished its growth it should be given a slight rest by removing it to a slightly 
cooler temperature and keeping it a little drier, but we object to its being 
subjected to thorough roasting. More can be done by resting Orchids in a cooler 
temperature than they have hitherto been growing in, and by withholding the 
greater part of the water-supply, than by the old-fashioned means of roasting and 
drying them, whilst the leaves are prevented from turning yellow and falling away 
and the pseudobulbs are saved from becoming wrinkled and shrivelled up. 
