The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



possible gold. Though it does well in our houses, 

 rarely can we match the enormous pseudo-bulbs 

 and the giant spikes it made at home. To judge 

 by my own experience, however, this is no mis- 



ONCIDinJI VAKICOSUM EOGEBSI. 



fortune. More than once I have raised spikes five 

 feet long and thick as a lead pencil; but the 

 branches were only two or three, short and sturdy, 

 and the number of flowers much less than a spike 

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