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should be placed round the base, and the supplies of water gradually 
increased. Fine growths will then be formed during the ensuing summer, 
producing in their turn a most beautiful show of flowers. 
Pleiones, having finished blooming, will start growing away at once, and 
therefore should not be kept too dry from now, henceforth. They should be 
suspended not far away from the glass in a cool temperature, where they 
will make slow but sturdy headway. If any require repotting it should be 
be done without delay, before the roots get far advanced. 
Odontoglossum citrosmum will now be finishing up its new 
pseudobulbs, and so must enjoy a long, dry rest, receiving sufficient water 
only to keep the pseudobulbs from becoming unduly shrivelled. This will 
ensure free blooming the following spring. This species always grow best 
in intermediate temperature, and will also do well in the Cool house, but 
when subjected to the latter treatment the new pseudobulbs have a natural 
tendency to be very late before being completed. 
The beautiful little Sophronitis grandiflora, which is so cheering during 
the dull months, has also the above habit of becoming late when grown vely 
cool during winter, and when so it is better to treat it to the Intermediate 
house. Keep this species moist at the roots until the blooming period is 
over. 
Cattleya Bowringiana, when well grown, takes a lot of beating for 
flowering at this season. Spindly pseudobulbs, that can produce only two oF 
three flowers, are scarcely worth blooming, but with fine, stout ones carrying 
say from ten to twenty blossoms it is quite another thing, and especially is it 
- when the variety happens to be of the finest order. Most Cattleyas revel 
” fairly large supplies of water when making new growth, but with the 
species in question it is necessary to be always on the guard against getting 
the compost too saturated, for I find if this happens, a peculiar disease, in 
the shape of dark coloured markings on the new leaves and pseudobulbs, is 
apt to appear, and I have known the latter to rot completely off. Ido not 
mean that it is necessary to starve it when growing for the want of sufficient 
Water to enable it to build up strong, sturdy pseudobulbs. This would be 
equally as bad as the former, and of this method I have seen some 
examples. Simply avoid much water. 
Lelia ancéps and its varieties, together with the not less beautiful 
L. autumnalis, L. Gouldiana, L. furfuracea, and L. Eyermaniana, ate ail 
producing their flower spikes freely, and: should be pretty liberally watered 
until blooming is past. No doubt the particularly hardy syste™ Z 
treatment which has previously been mentioned in the Calendars works out 
extremely well tregarding L. anceps, and is the only way to gain the very 
best results, The same may be urged regarding the other species named, 
excepting that they will not successfully withstand the same amount d 
