124 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1916 
plants for any length of time or harm may accrue, especially to soft-leaved, 
shade-loving plants. ‘These may seem small matters, but if the best results 
are to be attained they are essential. It is in small matters that many go 
astray. 
CyYMBIDIUMS, at the present day, include some of the most beautiful and 
easily-grown Orchids, the majority of which produce stately spikes of showy 
flowers, which adapt themselves to almost every purpose. They flower 
mostly in the early spring, although not all at one season, and all may 
practically be treated from one standpoint. As they resent root disturbance, 
repotting should only be done when the compost is exhausted, or when the 
plants are too large for the receptacles. They are not exacting in their 
requirements, and a cool Intermediate house makes admirable quarters for 
them, while a similar compost to that used for the green-leaved Cypri- 
pediums is suitable. The best time to repot both species and hybrids is 
just as the young growths are about to produce new roots. The usual 
caution is necessary in the application of water to the newly-potted plants 
until the thick, fleshy roots get hold of the compost, as they soon decay 
from an excess of water at this stage. 
PHALNopsIS.—When these delightful Orchids are grown, there is 
generally a house set apart for them, although at times one comes across 
many well-cultivated specimens grown in an ordinary plant stove. The 
greater number will now have passed out of flower, and commenced to 
make new leaves and roots. The species P. Schilleriana, amabilis, 
Aphrodite, Saunderiana, and one or two others are generally included when 
a collection of these plants is formed, and to which these remarks refer. 
They may be grown in baskets, ordinary flower pots, pans, or cylinders, 
whichever is preferred. Personally, I prefer ordinary Orchid pans. Which- 
ever receptacle is used it must be well-drained, crocks being placed quite 
three parts of the way up the receptacle, and a compost suitable for them 
is made up of equal portions of clean osmunda fibre and live sphagnum 
moss, the fibre cut fine, and the two thoroughly mixed. The plants should 
be afforded a shady position in the warmest house, and a humid atmosphere 
provided for them during their season of growth. 
CATTLEYAS AND ALLIED GENERA.—At the present time there are many of 
this large and beautiful family, both species and hybrids, pushing up their 
flowers within the sheathes, and it is advisable that plants in that condition 
should be thoroughly cleansed before the flowers push out. When in 
bloom the plants may be placed in drier and cooler quarters, where the 
flowers will last longer in perfection, and enable the visitor to avoid the 
heat and humidity of the growing houses. The potting of the plants, a5 
they go out of flower and begin to push roots at the base of the pseudo- 
bulbs, should have attention whenever it becomes necessary. The compost 
