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Year it is not possible to obtain them when required, and, if you do get 
them, they are often out of condition. 
PLEIONES.—As the different varieties pass out of bloom, they should at 
once be re-potted, as much injury will be done to them if the green shoots, 
from which the flowers have sprung, are allowed to push roots before they are 
repotted. | These roots are very tender and easily broken, and therefore it 
is quite obvious why they should be taken in hand at once. These plants 
succeed best grown suspended close to the glass in the Cattleya house. 
They ‘will succeed in the compost recommended for the green-leaved 
Cypripediums in previous numbers. Care must be taken that they do not 
get an excess of water until they get re-established, and the new roots are 
moving nicely in the new compost. The later-flowering varieties, such as 
P. humilis and those which flower in January and February, should have 
sufficient water to prevent them from shrivelling. 
MILTONIA VEXILLARIA AND BLEUANA.—These two delightful Orchids 
are now in active growth, and should be elevated on a temporary stage to 
within a foot of the glass, in a moderately damp position in the warm 
Cattleya house. Water should be applied to these plants at this season 
with great caution, and they should be allowed to get dry between each 
operation. Black tips to the leaves are a sure indication that they have 
received too much water. Often at this season the weaker and smaller 
plants will throw up their growths folded together, and these must be care- 
fully liberated, or the new growth will be deformed. See, also, that the 
sheath around the base of the new growth does not hold water, or prevent 
the new roots from entering the new compost. I make it a rule to remove 
them as soon as possible, as I think they are often the means of preventing 
the new growths from swelling as freely as they should. 
L@LIA PUMILA and its hybrids, as they pass out of flower, may have 
attention, should they require it, using the Cattleyacompost. They delight 
in small, shallow pans, and should not have much compost placed around 
them. They require at this season of the year a position at the coolest 
end of the Intermediate house, and only enough water to keep them plump 
should be given. 
CATTLEYAS AND L&LIOCATTLEYAS.—Many of these floral gems will 
now be in flower, and at this season their flowers are most valuable, and 
should be taken the greatest care of. Ifa house can be set aside for plants 
in bloom, where the atmosphere can be kept drier than in the houses where 
they have been grown, the flowers will last much longer. Great care must 
be taken that the temperature of the house or houses in which flowering 
plants are staged is not allowed to go below the lowest figures, or many 
flowers will be spotted and ruined. Plants of C. Warneri and others now 
showing signs of activity, by making new roots and growths, should be 
