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ready to remove to fresh store-pots, when they may be given 
more room ; or if large enough, they may be placed singly 
in thimble pots, or three or four seedlings may be placed 
round the rims of thumb pots. 
Seedling Odontoglossums, when large enough to occupy 
thimble pots, are found to thrive well when the pots are 
fixed in pans or shallow seed-boxes in Sphagnum-moss, and 
placed on a shelf near the glass in the Odontoglossum 
house, where, like other seedling Orchids, they should be 
lightly sprayed several times each day in fine, warm weather, 
and as often as may be deemed necessary in colder and 
dull weather. 
From the time the little plants are established in small 
pots until their flowering stage, it is only a matter of 
ordinary culture, although, as a rule, the small seedlings 
are safer with four or five degrees more heat than is afforded 
the established plants. In the matter of growth from 
the seedling stage to the flowering plant, there is but little 
need of a resting season, even with species such as are 
deciduous when mature, although a diminished supply of 
water may be given fora short time to any which, having 
completed a growth, show no sign of developing a fresh 
one. In most cases, a thorough drying, even if it does 
not destroy a seedling, causes the flowering season to be 
delayed by a year, or even longer. 
The careful shading of the seedling house is a very 
important matter. Very young plants do best in a subdued 
light, and until they are quite strong plants they should 
not be exposed to direct sunlight. A hot summer often 
kills even the plants which have been brought satisfactorily 
through a long winter. It is, therefore, advisable to have 
