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from the apex of the completed new growths, are perhaps more curious 
than beautiful, yet there is something very striking and unusual in the deep 
purple, heavily-fringed lip which takes the eye immediately, and altogether 
it is a most desirable Cool-house species. It should be grown in pans or 
baskets, and suspended in the Odontoglossum house, and in other respects 
treated exactly as the other inmates. 
Bulbophyllums and Cirrhopetalums are small, Britis growing plants, 
and give a great deal of pleasure and interest in return for the small space 
required to grow them. Some of the latter especially are most wonderful 
in the fantastical colouring and formation of their flowers. They are all 
best grown in small pans or baskets, and if a shelf or some such position 
can be secured for them pretty near or, say, about two feet from the roof in 
a Warm house, their wants are supplied to a nicety. When growing, their 
treatment as regards water should be exactly as for Dendrobiums, a liberal 
quantity being given, and, when growth is completed, their resting season 
also corresponds to that genus. 
Trichopilia (Pilumna) fragrans is a lovely species, which should be 
treated exactly like its nearest allies, the majority of which are now, or 
have lately been, in bloom. Some of these are particularly handsome, the 
best three perhaps being T. suavis, T. coccinea, and their varieties. They 
all thrive well grown in equal parts of peat and moss, in Intermediate 
temperature, and must never be allowed to get into a sour condition at the 
roots for want of re-potting, which should be done about once in two years. 
A pretty good supply of water is essential while growing, but care should 
be taken not to overdo them with it, or the roots perish, and a disease, in 
the form of black marks and spots, carries them off eventually. They may 
also be well cultivated in pans or baskets, and perhaps these are to be pre- 
ferred, for then they may be suspended when in bloom, which is the better 
plan, as the flowers are produced on short stems, and reach very little 
beyond the rim of the pot in which they are growing, so that, unless sus- 
pended, their full beauty is partly lost. 
There is much now to interest the enthusiastic grower, not in the show 
of bloom so much as in the growth and general prosperity of his plants. 
On every hand healthy new breaks and roots are appearing, and it is one of 
his chief pleasures to watch them and remark such progress on each visit. 
All will be well if previous cultural instructions are observed, and a sharp 
watch kept for deadly enemies in the shape of insect pests, none of which 
should be allowed to exist. Take particular care that the Cattleya fly is 
not allowed to breed on any recently-imported Cattleyas, otherwise serious 
apprehension may be felt for the following year. 
