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with first-class results. But if not done during this month I would advise 
that they be given a thorough good rest and left over until they start to 
grow early the following spring. 
The Mexican Lzlias are now growing apace, and flower spikes on 1 
anceps are fast showing. It is now above all other times that water should 
be very liberally supplied, especially after a hot day’s sun. It is best to get 
a bucket of tepid water about 4 or 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when the 
ventilation may be reduced, and with the aid of a syringe give them a 
thorough good drenching overhead. L. anceps, as before stated, always 
grows and flowers more satisfactorily when no shading is employed, and the 
leaves are simply kept from burning by the admission of large quantities 
of air. There are but few species that will flourish and withstand the same 
amount of strong suushine. _L. majalis is another which delights in all the 
sunshine possible, and should be suspended close to the ventilator so as to 
assure ample air. The other Mexican species such as L. autumnalis, and 
L. albida do not like so much strong sunshine, although both greatly 
appreciate the atmospheric conditions of the same department, therefore I 
always find it best to slightly shade the last named species with a coat ol 
whitewash or summer cloud over the glass immediately above them. The 
same applies to L. furfuracea and L. Gouldiana. 
The deciduous Calanthes are now provided with a good quantity of new 
roots and growing away freely. They usually grow well enough when 
accommodated with the warmth of an ordinary stove, and they may now be 
watered occasionally with a weak stimulant, obtained by soaking cow OF 
sheep manure in rain water and straining off. Should the plants, however, 
appear weakly, and show signs of the foliage spotting, the application of 
manure will only add fuel to the fire, and should not be used. Debility and 
black spots are frequently set up by this very act of feeding, because it is 
overdone. When plants are attacked by this spotting the only possible 
way to pull them round again is to grow them in small pots and in poor 
soil, and endeavour to obtain healthy, sound pseudobulbs, which however 
small will be of greater service the following year than larger diseased bulbs. 
Thunias will by this time have done blooming, and should be taken to the 
house where the Dendrobes are resting ; as should also the Pleiones, which 
are now so far advanced in growth as to be able to finish off nicely in such 
a house, but care should be taken to still supply them with sufficient water, . 
or they will soon become starved and not bloom well during the autum. I 
think nice pans full of Pleiones in flower are very lovely indeed. | 
Coelogyne cristata is now making growth, and if the plants are weakly 
the manure water mentioned above may be given to these also, that 1 
Providing the plants are established with plenty of roots, otherwise more 
harm than good would result. I am not generally an advocate of manure — 
