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constructed so that the water from the outside may easily run off, and all 

 drip from condensation during the winter prevented. Three-quarter span 

 houses to the south are sometimes used, but they become too hot, and 

 more ventilation must be given. This, in turn, exhausts the moisture so 

 necessary for successful Orchid culture. 



In conclusion, I wish to say to the retail florist : Do always try to 

 keep a few Orchids in a conspicuous place in your store, and show them to 

 your customers, and by having different kinds from time to time, I am sure 

 the public in general will soon become interested, and you will build up a 

 trade equally profitable to yourself, the grower, and the flower-loving 



LiELIO-CATTLEYA x MANDARIN. 



A fine hybrid between Laelia crispa and Cattleya granulosa Schofieldiana 

 (it is not stated which was the seed parent) is sent from the collection of Sir 

 James Miller, Manderston, Duns, N.B., by Mr. Hamilton, under the above 

 name. According to the records it ought to be a variety of Lselio-cattleya 

 X Mylamiana, but we believe it to be different, owing to confusion in the 

 early records. The latter hybrid was raised by Messrs. Wm. Rollisson 

 and Sons, of Tooting, and was described by Reichenbach in 1879, under 

 the name of Lselia X Mylamiana (Gard. Chron., 1876, vi, p. 740, fig. 138). 

 Messrs. Rollisson gave the parentage as Cattleya granulosa X Lselia crispa, 

 and remarked that the flowers of the former were impregnated in the 

 autumn of 1863, and the hybrid was about thirteen years in arriving at the 

 flowering state. The pseudobulbs they described as stout, cylindrical, 

 slightly more than a foot high, bearing in some cases a pair of stout, 

 leathery, ovate, obtuse leaves, some eight inches long, and 2\ inches broad ; 

 in others only a single leaf, and in this state they exactly resembled the male 

 parent, Lselia crispa. Reichenbach added that the plant might be compared 

 with Laelia X devoniensis, except that the front lobe of the lip was 

 nearly sessile, a character borne out by the woodcut, and just the reverse 

 of what is seen in hybrids of C. granulosa, all of which show the 

 markedly unguiculate front lobe of that parent. Messrs. Rollison's 

 record of parentage appears to have been kept with praiseworthy 

 accuracy, but it is known that about this period C. granulosa was 

 confused with its allies in gardens, a fact which invalidates at 

 least one other record. At all events the hybrid now sent by Mr. 

 Hamilton does not agree with the figure named, which latter agrees so well 

 with flowers of L.c. X devoniensis as to suggest that both were derived from 

 Laelia crispa and Cattleya Leopoldi. The original plant of L.-c. X 

 Mylamiana seems to have been lost sight of, but we may now consider i t a 



