go THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
bulbs are enough for a 32 sized pot.. They should always be grown fully 
exposed to the sun. 
-Calanthes require.a compost with a little more body; and a little fibrous 
loam and leaf soil may be added to the above. The pots should be half 
drained, the remaining half being filled up with the compost to within half 
an:inch of the rim. Into this fix the bulbs, and support them with sticks, 
one to a 48 or two bulbs to a 32 sized pot. 
The winter or early spring-flowering Dendrobiums are now at their 
best, and as it is twelve months ago since we saw them, how beautiful and 
new they all appear again, in their garb of ever-varying delicate shades and 
tints, and what a remarkable number of different varieties there are now 
compared to only a few years ago! Those which have passed out of their 
flowering stage we are now examining, and doing all necessary repotting 
or top dressing, afterwards placing them in their proper growing quarters, 
Too much heat, however, need not yet be given, until we can rely more. 
upon our: fickle climate for assistance in the matter of natural heat. 
The greater number are now in bloom, but a good batch yet remains to 
come in, and these are now being gradually inured to more warmth and 
moisture, so that they will flower in a few weeks, and at the same time to 
ensure the best quality of blooms. Dendrobiums should have no check 
after once being started. .I have often noticed that if they are again taken 
to a cooler house, in order to. retard the opening of the flowers for any 
purpose, they usually come small in size and inferior in colour. 
Much of the repotting and top-dressing in the East Indian House is 
now done. Many of the Angrzcums will soon be flowering, and among 
them are A. citratum and A. Sanderianum, two truly beautiful and interest- 
ing species. It is generally easy enough to pick out the old moss from the 
roots, and supply fresh, without checking them in the least. This genus 
suffers more than any I know if the atmosphere is very dry or the plants 
kept too dry at the roots; also if allowed to become infested with 
yellow thrips or red spider. All the Phalenopses are also done, and 
1c oting et into the — sphagnum, which nahoue now be kept wet 
moistened. 
In addition to the Dendrobiums, ohne should be dome of as. they 
pass: out of bloom, there are a number cf other miscellaneous Orchids 
which should likewise have attention as they may want: it, which will be 
chicfly during this and the following months. . I refer to such plants as 
Catasetums, Eulophias, Stanhopeas, - Mebedie.. Cycnoches, Coryanthes, 
Spathoglottis, and Aganisias, which should all .be cultivated in baskets, and 
suspended close’ to the roof glass, the usual fibrous peat and sphagnum 
moss being: the most. suitable composts. Then there are the Galeandras, 
of which the dwarf growing~ones do best also in ‘baskets’; also. the Cyrto- 
podiums. Some of the last two ‘genera’ have very long pseudobulbs, and 
