28 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
grown on a horizontally suspended raft without the least 
potting material. 
The great trouble with suspended Orchids, and one which 
precludes the cultivator employing this culture for so many 
plants as he could wish, is the drip they cause to the plants 
on the stages. No Orchid should have another plant sus- 
pended above it; if it is not possible to avoid this, the 
relative positions of the suspended plants should be changed 
as often as possible; water should only be given them 
by “dipping” the plants, and they should be allowed to 
drain thoroughly before being again suspended. As many 
of the suspended plants as possible should be arranged 
on each side of the path, and in other situations where 
there are no plants immediately under them. 
Narrow rafts 4 inches wide and 1 foot or so in 
height are suitable for Angraecum infundibulare, A. imbri- 
catum, and other scandent Angrzecums of similar growth. 
These should be fastened to the rafts with some good 
Sphagnum-moss between the plant and the raft on the 
lower half, the base of the plant and the raft being after- 
wards fastened in a flower-pot with Sphagnum-moss, the 
raft leaning at a slight angle. Sphagnum-moss can be 
added on the upper part as the plant grows, and, when 
sufficiently rooted up the stem, it can be severed half-way 
up when the base will produce new growths, 
STAKING OR FIXING ORCHIDS 
Some years ago, when large specimens were favoured, it 
used to be the practice to stake or “stick” the plants, as it 
was called, some of them exhibiting almost as many sticks as 
