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and ready to re-pot; also the Lelia purpurata, and a few others that may 
still be undone. The above named, together with many other inmates of 
this department, also Lzlia anceps and the Mexican Lelias generally, 
should now be very actively growing, and will require nothing more than to 
be well attended to, spraying them overhead early in the afternoon, as soon 
as the shading is removed. 
The deciduous Calanthes are now getting pretty strongly rooted, and 
may receive more water at the roots. A little weak farm-yard manure may 
also be given occasionally ; though if they have been potted into rich, 
loamy soil but little manure is needed, if any at all. If soft pond or rain 
water is used for watering, very few Orchids, indeed, are the better for the 
manure, in fact, there is always an element of risk and danger attached. 
That, in some few cases, a dose or two of weak, liquid manure does no 
harm but possibly good, I do not doubt. Such, for instance, as a pot- 
would be to give more root room and generous’ soil to feed upon. Hard 
tap water, we know, is no good for plants to thrive upon, but when no 
other is to hand, it should always be exposed to the air in tanks before 
using, and a few wood ashes, or other burnt vegetable matters, may be 
thrown in, which will, to. some extent, make up for the deficiency of 
carbon. 
DENDROBIUMs are now making good clean growth, and here again but 
very little repanning and basketing will remain undone. The syringe 
ng them, it being a good plan to syringe 
two or three times daily on‘all bright hot days. With air, and a little fire 
warmth, as before stated, I now find but little damping-off of the new 
growths, no matter how much addicted the species may be to do so; they 
: certainly appear to be all 
the better for it. Of course, one must expect with a houseful of Dendrobiums 
to have a mishap now and again by losing a growth. I have proved, 
anyway, that the mere fact of water lodging in new growths, through 
syringing, is not by any means a. sufficient cause for their damping-off. 
Some other cause must be at work, such as an insufficiency of air, of light, 
cool frame, whichever is in use for the cool 
others, must now be kept as cool as possible 
ace of the house, or the 
Odontoglossums and some few 
-  Ventilate well all night as 
well as day, in a manner SO as to avoid arid draughts. Shade rather — 
