The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



position would ruin it, Lut there is a general im- 

 pression that CaJtlciia citrina will not live more than 

 a few years anyhow. I have two plants, however, 

 bought in 1889, which will give me several flowers 



CATTLEYA CITKINA. 



this spring; hut tliey will be the last, evidently. 

 I grow theni in liaskets, suspended by the two 

 upper corners only ; thus they follow their instinct. 

 But when the bloom is opening, the basket may be 



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