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hollow. The fragrant flowers are borne eight or ten together in 

 erect spikes, and they are white, the lip being dotted with purple, 

 while the disk is yellow. The best way to manage Diacrium 

 BicoRNUTUM is to grow it in a teak basket in peat and sphagnum, 

 and suspend it over a water-tank in the hottest house while it is 

 growing freely, removing it to a lighter, drier position in a stove 

 when resting. It is a charming Orchid when it flowers freely, and 

 its flowers are very lasting and useful. 



EPI-CATTLEYA 



There are a few hybrids of recent origin derived from crossing 

 an Epidendrum with a Cattleya, but none are of outstanding 

 horticultural merit. Some of the hybrids are very rare, and so do 

 not appear before the public. Of those seen by the writer E.-c. 

 MATUTiNA {E. radicans x C.Bowringiana) is the best ; it has 

 carmine, yellow-lipped flowers, an inch and a half across, borne 

 eight or ten together in a spike. 



EPI-L^LIA 



The Epi-laelias are not very prominently with us yet, and 

 little is known of their real value or cultural needs, though pro- 

 bably the latter are easily provided in the Intermediate House. 

 Eighteen or twenty hybrids have appeared, and the most con- 

 spicuous of these are — E.-l. Charlesworthii [E. radicans x L. 

 cinnabarina), E.-l. Hardyana [E. ciliare x L. anceps\ and E.-l. 

 Veitchii {E. radicans x C. purpurata). In all these the style of 

 growth and flower most resembles the Epidendrum parent, but the 

 flowers are larger and the growth dwarfer. 



