JANUARY, I914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 21 
SEEDLING CYPRIPEDIUMS can be potted on directly they fill their pots 
with roots, irrespective of season, and if they are kept free from thrip the 
flowering stage will soon be reached. Seed may also be sown around old 
plants which do not need repotting this season, and those with a clean 
surface, and having the soil below the rim, ought to be selected for the 
purpose. Careful watering is essential, and if the pots are placed in a 
temperature of 70° Fahr. germination will generally take effect in about. two 
months, provided the seed is fertile. This statement, however, must not be 
taken too literally, for I have known seedlings to appear twelve months or 
more after sowing the seed. 
- C@LoGyNE cRiIsTaTA will now begin to show signs of flowering, and 
may be given a more liberal supply of water, but none must accumulate in 
the young growth or the scapes will probably decay. Soon after the spikes 
are removed a fresh batch of roots will be seen at the base of each shoot, 
when any repotting or top-dressing can be taken in hand. C. cristata and 
Its varieties rather resent much disturbance at the root, and it is about a 
couple of years before they recover sufficiently to produce a good crop of 
flowers, so the best method is to overhaul a specimen or two (according to 
the quantity grown) each year. Pans from eight to sixteen inches in diameter 
prove the most useful receptacles, and the ordinary compost of osmunda, 
peat, and sphagnum moss should be employed. 
DENDROBIUMS.—Some of the early kinds will be swelling at the nodes, 
and if given a little more warmth they will soon be in flower. Hard forcing 
is not suggested, and water should only be applied in sufficient quantity to 
prevent the pseudobulbs from shrivelling. The majority can still be kept 
cool, and fairly dry at the root. 
CaTTLEYAS.—- Many of the winter-flowering Cattleyas and Lzliocattleyas, 
especially hybrids from C. labiata and C. Bowringiana, possess a somewhat 
thick sheath, and when the scapes are removed care should be taken to 
make a clean cut, and if the weather is dull ard foggy a little powdered 
charcoal or sulphur may be sprinkled over the wound, which will in most 
cases prevent decay. 
PHALEHNopsis LINDENII.—An interesting Philippine Phalenopsis was 
exhibited by Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, at the R.H.S. meeting 
held on December 2nd last, and proves to be P. Lindenii, Loher, described 
in 1895 (Journ. des. Orch., vi. p. 103). M. Loher described it as somewhat 
like P. Schilleriana in the leaves and P. rosea in the flowers, which would 
suggest natural hybridity, except that he found no other species with it, and 
that the flowers do not agree with P. Veitchii, which has such a parentage. 
Messrs. Low believe that their plant came with P. Aphrodite. Its history 
has been given in our pages (xv. p. 296).—R.A.R. , 
