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will be found suitable. Shade, moisture, and plenty of fresh air 

 are very necessary to the well-being of Disas, and if pains are 

 taken to provide these, the grower will be rewarded with beautiful 

 flowers, and will come fully to understand why D. grandtflora^ 

 the gem of the Table Mountain, is popularly called " The Flower 

 of the Gods." 



EPIDENDRUM 



Although the genus Epidendrum is a very large one in point 

 of numbers, it is by no means one of the most useful from a 

 cultivator's point of view. Considering the many species it contains 

 (over four hundred), it has few of first-rate importance for garden 

 purposes. As Epidendrums are distributed over a very wide area 

 in South America, it might be expected that under cultivation they 

 require varied conditions, but this is not so, for with the exception 

 of the lovely little E. vitellinum majus, all may be managed very 

 well in an intermediate house. Those with pseudo-bulbs well 

 defined are best grown with the Cattleyas and Lxlias, but those 

 with slender, flexuous stems need moist atmospheric conditions the 

 whole year through, but a diminished supply of water at the roots 

 when resting. Peat and sphagnum provide a suitable rooting 

 medium, and potting should be done as new roots appear. The 

 taller, slender-stemmed kinds should be freely syringed when in full 

 growth. All Epidendrums are evergreen. 



Best Species and Hybrids 



E. ciNNABARiNUM grows four feet high, and its slender stems 

 are crowned in Spring or early Summer with terminal clusters of 

 scarlet, orange-lipped flowers. E. evectum is a tall, leafy-stemmed 

 species, and one that is almost always in flower, bearing long- 



