drained pots, and potted in a mixture composed of good brown peat-fibre and 
chopped sphagnum moss. During the summer season it enjoys a liberal supply of 
water, but yet the superabundant quantity should be quickly carried away, so that 
nothing stale or stagnant remains about the roots. Care should also be taken in 
watering the plant just at the time when the young fresh growths are coming ‘up, 
for if the water lodges in these it is apt to rot them, and thus spoil the 
flowering. During the winter also less water will be necessary, but the plant must 
by no means be allowed to become perfectly dry or its bulbs will shrivel 
and die. 
OpontogLossum ReEtUsuM (Lindl. ). — This charming species appears to always 
have been a rare plant in cultivation, and even at the present day, when we 
have so many Orchids, this Odontoglossum is seldom met with. We remember 
having imported some of it about twenty years ago from Kcuador, and 
the collector who sent it home reported having found it growing in a very 
cool temperature. However, the plants did not bloom with us from that 
importation, and consequently were not in much demand; therefore jt eventually 
dropped out of cultivation in our establishments. | We were recently in receipt of 
a portion of a spike of this species from Mr. Hughes, gardener to E. H. Woodall, Ksq., 
St. Nicholas House, Scarborough, bearing ahout twenty pretty blossoms. Mr. Hughes 
says the plant had over a hundred blooms open, which must have been 
a charming contrast to Odontoglossum Alexandrae, O. Pescatoret, &c., with which 
he grows it, the same temperature suiting it admirably, and thriving well under 
the same treatment. It produces a spike alternately branching, bearing three 
or four blooms on each branch. The flowers are pendant, and as the name implies 
bent back ; sepals and petals are of a beautiful clear orange-red, and at the back of 
each is a big blotch of chocolate-brown; the lip is similar in colour to the sepals 
a petals, but brighter, with two or three tubercles at the base. The colidel 
tfc, mr reenbling “Oeiding nareds em, ay other Oontoget— 
. | 8, without the reddish hue; they are 
ane oa mee ebay wrinkled with age, about six inches in 
ae We op; eaves dark green. We cannot but congratulate 
Pp aving this beautiful plant in his fine collection, and we are 
sure that were it better known, it would certainly be much more eve than at 
present on account of its pleasing contrast wh ; : 
colours. —W., H. @ 8 en mixed with plants of other 
