SPECIES AND CULTURE 



Ada. 



This name has no significance ; it was bestowed 

 by Dr. Lindley, after a lady unknown. Tlie genus 

 has but two species. 



Aurantiaca (orange). — Valuable for its colour — 

 a lively orange-scarlet; it would be beautiful if 

 only the flowers would consent to open. That is a 

 great objection in my eyes. Occasionally, indeed, 

 one beholds specimens — grown on the Continent, 

 or in some spots of this country where the light is 

 strong — which show such dense garlands of flower 

 one scarcely notices that the individual bells are 

 half-shut. Peat and moss, or the Belgian system. 

 The culture, as in so many instances to be dealt 

 with hereafter, is that of OdontoglosHwm crispum, 

 which see. Ada aurantiaca never gives any tr(.)uble. 



The spike pushes from the side of the bulb when 

 approaching maturity — that is, when beginning to 

 take its rounded form. Six or eight flowers only 

 can be expected, but it will bear twice as many 

 under exceptional circumstances. They are very 



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