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to obstruct the pipes, not even the evaporating troughs which we once 
thought indispensable. 
Tue East InptAn House.—The general conditions here will, just at 
the present, vary but little from the Cattleya or Mexican departments. 
The whole of these houses will, of course, be in receipt of good warmth 
now that new growth is being formed. Of the two, however, the East 
Indian should be the warmest. ‘Such Orchids as Phalzenopsis, Saccolabium, 
Aérides, and Angrecums are rooting and growing freely. It is not good 
practice to endeavour to confine the roots of these and other air-rooting 
kinds, as Renanthera, Rhynchostylis, Aéranthes, Arachnanthe, Camarotis, 
and Sarcochilus, to the baskets or pots in which they grow. In fact, it is 
almost impossible, and to attempt it would greatly interfere with their 
natural free and wild growing propensities, and they greatly resent it. All 
that this class of Orchids requires is to be made secure in some kind of 
receptacle, either to suspend above or to stand on the stages, according to 
its manner of growth, fixing them firm with crocks and charcoal, surfaced 
with fresh sphagnum moss. They will then soon grow and push out their 
large, fleshy roots in the air in search of the moisture on which they live. 
It is best, therefore, not to disturb them by moving them about from one 
part of the house to another more than can possibly be helped, for when 
grown in and accustomed to one position they do not readily take to 
another. These air roots should be more or less supplied with moisture in 
accordance with the season, whether growing or at rest, by syringing them 
with soft pond or rain water, made tepid by adding sufficient clean hot 
water to make the whole warm to the hand. 
Other warm growing kinds doing best in this house are Aganisia 
cyanea, which should be grown on rafts in small baskets, and suspended in 
a light part, Cyrtopodium, which should be grown in baskets or pans of 
firm peat and suspended, Chysis, also in baskets suspended, Grammato- 
phyllum Fenzlianum, and Grammangis Ellisii, both of which grow 
best in baskets, and are fond of plenty of light and moisture at this 
season. 
Very little re-potting should now remain to be done, and the present 
month should practically see it all completed, excepting, perhaps, a few 
plants here and there. I cannot recommend late summer or autumn 
potting generally, especially in localities where, for some reason or another, 
the winters are comparatively dull, though in bright country gardens I 
admit the evil effects are not so great and marked. Therefore, if there are 
still any Cattleya Triane or Mossi#, or other spring and early summer 
blooming kinds remaining to be done, they should be taken in hand at 
once. By the end of the present month, some of the earliest plants of 
C. Warscewiczii and C. Warneri to bloom will be pushing out new roots 
