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this will be a great check to the plant, whilst making the new growth that 
will produce flowers next season. Water should be freely poured on the 
stages and amongst the pots during all hot and very drying days. 
TuunIAS, which are pushing up their flower spikes, will benefit with an 
occasional watering of weak manure water, and they may now be taken to 
a cooler house to expand their flowers, where they will last much longer, 
and the flowering season be thereby prolonged. MRed spider and thrip must 
be looked for on these plants, and, as a preventative, they should be freely 
syringed on the undersides of the leaves on all bright days. 
MASDEVALLIA TOVARENSIS, and a few of the smaller Masdevallias, which 
flower during the winter, may now be repotted with advantage, if they need 
a fresh supply of compost, and the old is at all decayed, or likely to be so 
before the time comes round for further attention. There is always one 
thought which come into my head when speaking of potting Orchids, and 
Orchid composts, and that is that some people expect to get good results 
from a plant that has been growing in the same compost for years, and, in 
fact, that has nothing whatever to grow in. Would they attempt to grow 
an ordinaty plant under the same conditions? I am confident that the 
simpler we can make our corditions and the more rationally we can treat 
our plants, the greater amount of success we shall attain, 
SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA, and any hybrids from it that are making new 
roots may have attention at this season. I find that they succeed best at 
the cool end of the Intermediate house, grown in the same mixture as 
recommended for Cattleyas, and with proper attention there is no reason 
why anyone should not succeed with them. They make delightful coat 
flowers, and with them we get colours entirely new in the Cattleya family. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE, Insleayi, and others of this section, may be 
repotted at this season, using a compost of equal parts peat, osmunda, and 
polypodium fibre, mixed with a fair amount of sphagnum moss, and potted 
moderately firmly. They are best accommodated in the Cool house during 
the summer months, taking them to a house with a drier atmosphere, anda 
little higher temperature during the winter. The same remarks will apply 
to Odontoglossum citrosmum. 
GENERAL REMARKS.—Our plants will now be about to commence their 
work for next season, and it should be every cultivator’s aim to see that 
nothing on his part should be wanting, that every plant should, as far as 
possible, have every requirement satisfied. Difficult Orchids, as we call 
some of them, but are they really difficult, or is it want of knowledge on the 
cultivator’s part? I think it is usually the latter. . 
' Watch carefully for all our foes, namely, insect and other pests. What 
a blessing it would be if we could only exterminate them, and that should 
be our aim. 
