58 ; THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
foreign basket should be tied back. It is scarcely necessary to add that 
great care must be exercised in doing this. For a considerable time after 
the plants have been done up, water must be applied with great care and 
discretion ; those that are in cylinders, being arranged on a stage, will need 
very little applied direct, as almost sufficient will be afforded by damping 
among and around the outsides, sprinkling the moss occasionally with 
water from a can with a fine rose to prevent it becoming too dry. Those in 
baskets hanging up should not be immersed in water sufficiently to wet the 
whole body of moss, but just deep enough to soak the crocks and wet the 
base of the moss, capillary attraction doing the rest. The young and 
succulent roots of these plants are often destroyed by cockroaches and 
crickets, and to keep these depredators in check a quantity of phosphor 
paste should be /aid about at night amongst the plants and other parts of the 
house. 
Vanda Amesiana has just gone out of flower, and to give it a little rest 
it should be one of the last to be done up. This and V. Kimballiana are 
two difficult subjects to deal with, and no general unanimity exists as to 
whether they should be grown cool, intermediate, or warm, the advocates 
of either temperature having met with a certain amount of success whilst | 
growing them under those conditions. As far as we here are concerned, 
our treatment inclines to the latter ; the only thing I can recommend is that 
if success is not obtained under cool treatment, try a warmer one, or vice 
versa. Very little water is needed by these two, except in the middle of the 
growing season. 
The grand old Stauropsis (Vanda) gigantea is now in flower here, an 
event of annual occurrence, though it is not everyone’s experience with this 
plant. It is grown amongst the Dendrobes in the stove, the bright sunlight 
it is subjected to during the summer probably being conducive to this happy 
event. It may have fresh moss given it when the other distichous-leaved 
Orchids are done ; also Angrecum citratum, pallidum, pellucidum, Sanderi- 
anum, &c. The first one is now about to open its sweet-scented flowers, a 
process which greatly exhausts this delightful Orchid. However, we have 
plants here over ten years old, but I am afraid they will soon go to another 
place. As a rule, Angrecums may be given water more frequently than 
Aérides and such-like plants during the winter, but to a great extent the 
quantity required will depend on the prevailing conditions of the house and 
the position they occupy in it. j 
After having enjoyed a long rest in an Intermediate house, plants of the 
graceful flowering Platyclinis (Dendrochilum) glumacea should, if not already 
done, be removed to a light and warm position in the East Indian house, 
as the young growths enclosing the thread-like spikes are fast pushing up. 
Liberal supplies of water should be given, but not overhead yet awhile. If _ 
