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but do not wash them out as in the spring. As the winter comes along 
every other day seems often enough to sprinkle the plants, until the flower- 
spikes begin to show their buds, then they take much more water. After 
the flower-spikes are cut water is withheld again for a few weeks, only 
enough being given to keep the leaves plump. 
Plenty of heat, moisture, and shade, are the main things I rely on; as 
near 70° at night as can be got seems to do all right, with a rise to 80° with 
fire heat during the day. The house is thoroughly damped down twice a 
day, taking care to throw lots of water behind the pipes (hot water). In 
summer it does not need so much, for the fires are let out for. about four 
months ; a good damping in the afternoon seems enough. There are no 
side or bottom ventilators in this house, so all the airing is done from the 
top ventilators, these I never open till the glass stands at go°, and then only 
open them a little. 
I never use manure or feeding of any kind, and under this treatment the 
plants make three leaves every year, and two or three spikes. Some of 
the spikes are 3 to 4 feet long, and bear from 50 to 80 flowers. The house 
is heavily shaded; in the spring a good coat of whitening mixed with 
turpentine, and a little oil to make it stick to the glass, is put on, then 
about the month of May, lath shading is put on this, laid close to the glass. 
This lath shading stays on all summer till October, then it is taken down, 
but the whitening is never washed off, but during the winter the storms 
take it off by degrees, so that it needs renewing early in March. I find 
the more heat Phalznopses get the better they do, for last year we hada 
very warm spell in this country, when for about ten days together the glass 
was over 100° in the shade, and then you could almost see the leaves grow. 
This, I think, had a lot to do with the fine spikes we got this year. When 
the house is shut up in the afternoon in summer the glass runs up to 120°, 
and in the morning the plants are wet with dew. I may say that the 
plants are never troubled with thrip or any other insect, and the leaves get 
a sponge over but once a year. 
JAMES GOODIER. 
Three photographs were sent—the one here reproduced; a second of 
the same plants taken two years ago, showing a decided improvement at 
the present time; and a third representing a single remarkable specimen, 
which, owing to the nature of the background, is not so suitable for 
reproduction. It is a plant with a double crown, and Mr. Emerson, 
Mr. Dinsmore’s gardener, states that it was purchased twelve years ago 
from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Upper Clapton, and that some years 
later it broke away from the base, and so formed a double plant. Mr. 
Goodier, who has had charge of it for 33 years, encloses the following note :— 
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