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in an odd corner, where, if lightly sprayed occasionally, they will emit 
growths and then can be potted up later. Another method is to insert 
them in well-drained pots of silver sand and moss, but both methods are 
equally effective. 
Personally I do not care for the system of growing Dendrobes in small 
pans and suspending them from the roof, as they dry up so quickly, and if 
at any time the grower is pushed for time they are apt to be forgotten, when 
the plants invariably suffer. 
Unless the sun is very bright the less the blinds are used the better, and 
if those Orchids which are in flower are removed to a cooler and drier 
house, shading will probably, during the first part of this month, be only 
needed about midday. Taken generally, Intermediate house Orchids do 
not need nor like anything approaching the amount of shade necessary for 
those belonging to the Cool division. 
SUGGESTED ADDITION. 
DENDROBIUM THWAITESI&.—This magnificent hybrid is one of the best 
of this genus, and merits extensive cultivation. It is a cross between 
Ainsworthii and Wiganiz, and flowered in 1903. _ It is very free-flowering, 
and possesses a good constitution. The blossoms are usually produced in 
May, and are of a deep orange yellow, with a large area of reddish purple 
in the lip, forming a pleasing contrast. During its growing season a light 
moist position at the warmest end of the house should be given, but after 
the new bulbs are completed, and until the flower buds are well developed, 
a cooler and drier temperature is needed, though, in common with all 
hybrid Dendrobiums, it does not need the severe rest and drying, practised 
in the culture of the species. 
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eee Establishment of Messrs. Cypher & Sons has long occupied an 
honoured position amongst present-day trade collections, and some 
notes upon a few of the good things recently seen may be of interest to 
readers of the Orchid Review. 
The nursery comprises about thirty houses, in which all manner of 
stove and greenhouse plants are cultivated, ten being solely given up to 
Orchids. On entering a large span-roof house, a large batch of Cypripedium 
aureum virginale and C. a. Surprise attracted the eye, and among other 
sturdy plants of this genus Mrs. Godman, Miss Louisa Fowler, Euryades 
New Hall Hey variety, and some pretty examples of Queen of Italy must be 
noted. Large specimen plants of Lzeliocattleyas are grown on the central 
Staging, and amongst those in flower were a good dark L.-c. bletchleyensis, 
ORCHIDS AT CHELTENHAM. 
