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like flower is produced. This flowering shoot fails to develop a pseudobulb, 
so that the two kinds of growths are developed one after the other on the 
rhizome, in allusion to which the name of the section, Diplocaulobium, was 
given. The flowers, unfortunately, are devoid of beauty, being yellowish, 
with the narrow sepals and petals passing into light pink, and the whole 
under an inch long. The front lobe of the lip is yellow, the pubescent disc 
paler, and the side lobes bordered and spotted with dull purple. D. 
Mettkeanum, Kranzl. (Gard. Chyron., 1894, ii., p. 306), seems to me identical 
—in fact, it also was imported by Messrs, Sander, 
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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR JUNE. 
By H. A. BURBERRY, Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham. 
THE general treatment recommended in Jast month’s Calendar should still 
be maintained, remembering that the temperature and conditions of the 
atmosphere play a most important part in Orchid culture. If these are 
properly regulated, and the plants are kept clean, and the compost in good 
condition, free and healthy growth must inevitably result. Nothing else is 
necessary, except, perhaps, a little trouble in finding the most suitable 
positions in the house for any given species it is desirable to cultivate. 
This is an important matter, for as I have previously intimated, one Orchid 
will luxuriate here and another there, 
house, high or low, moist or dry, 
of. Position, in fact, is of more 
and thus the various positions in the 
sunny or shady, may all be made good use 
real importance than is generally supposed 
for the successful cultivation and flowering of Orchids, and those who have 
not had much experience with th 
important matter. 
A shocking instance of mismana 
under my notice. 
house partly devot 
em should pay particular attention to this 
sement in this respect has lately come 
At the establishment in question there is a good-sized 
ed to their culture, which proves that at some time or 
other an attempt had been made to grow them, though they are fast losing 
their possessor’s good opinion, owing to improper treatment. I will not 
attempt to explain here the state into which these unfortunate plants had 
fallen, suffice it to say that the greater portion greatly needed repotting into 
much smaller pots, and fresh sweet compost. Nor is it necessary to add how 
many quite Cool house Orchids were there, Evidently this was the Orchid 
house, and when one was purchased it was placed in this house, regardless 
of its requirements. ‘The Structure is what is usually known in most 
gardens as the stove. On being taken into the Orchid House, what, 
perhaps, struck me as the most comical sight of all was to see such pot 
plants as Cypripediums carefully suspended, while the really pan or basket- 
