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always grow well during the three autumn months, the light being less 
intense, and the moist atmosphere mostly conducing to this desirable end. 
More care will be needed now when watering any of the thick-textured 
Cypripediums or hybrids having any blood of such in their veins, for water 
lodging in the leaves now does not evaporate quickly enough to prevent 
damage being done. Those coming under this definition include such as 
C. Stonei, philippinense (levigatum), Sanderianum, Rothschildianum, &c., 
and those of the “‘ concolor ” section. 
Comment was made in the Orchid Review some months ago on the 
difficulty experienced in growing C. bellatulum, myself being amongst the 
number of unsuccessful growers. Previous to that, we had placed our 
plants in a house where Miltonia vexillaria, Maxillaria grandiflora, and other 
cool subjects were growing, and where one can easily guess the temperature 
is not at all high, or the light very glaring ; now, after being in this position 
—a hanging one—for over seven months, I think their progress and condition 
warrants me in declaring that such a position is the right one for them. Of 
course, careful watering has been enforced, as well as being sparingly 
supplied, and now a very small quantity given at long intervals will be the 
rule. The growth made on these plants is wonderfully clean and sturdy, 
and thrips, which play such havoc with this section, have left them un- 
molested, greatly to the plant’s advantage. The remarks on the other 
members of this group in a past issue, are still of value, as it would be use- 
less trying to grow them cool, as they come from a lower elevation and 
consequently a warmer clime. 
All plants that are grown in moss alone, such as Aérides, Vandas, 
Saccolabiums, &c., will now need much less water, and in many cases the 
moss should be removed, or at least the greater portion of it, or mischief 
will be done by trying to keep it in a growing condition rather than study- 
ing the requirements of the plants it is supposed to benefit. The lovely 
Vanda ccerulea, that flowers during the autumn, is a very difficult Orchid 
to deal with during the winter months, if the right place be not found for it. 
We have a plant here that was hung up in the Phalenopsis house early in 
the summer, and which from that time has never had any water given it 
direct, and yet it has made good progress and now has two good spikes of 
bloom on the one growth. I do not recommend this as the right treatment, 
but I think it proves conclusively that it is a fallacy to keep on watering a 
plant to keep the moss growing when it is in a saturated atmosphere. 
Angrecum Leonis, A. citratum, and other small growing species having 
leaves of a more succulent character than Aérides or Vandas, will need to 
be kept a trifle more moist than plants belonging to those genera, but even 
here it is better to err on the dry side than on the wet. The stately A. 
Sesquipedale thrives best in a lower temperature than that of the East 
