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fierce, bright sunshine, and should therefore be provided with more shade 
during the summer ; and regarding that pretty little species, Lelia albida, 
the above advice should never be forgotten. 
Epidendrum vitellinum I always find grows best in the coolest house 
during summer, and enjoys a fair amount of moisture, but it does not keep 
its foliage free from spots and blemishes in all cool structures during the 
winter months. It is one of these Mexican Orchids, and consequently 
capable of roughing it a good deal, especially during the winter or resting 
season. Should, therefore, the cool house be a particularly shady and moist 
one, the plants would be best removed to a drier, though not necessarily 
warmer department. The same remarks will also apply to the pretty little 
Odontoglossums, Rossii and Cervantesii, should the new foliage show 
signs of immature decay at the apex. 
The genus Phalenopsis, where well grown, will this month yield its 
harvest of beautiful flowers. What can possibly satisfy the most fastidious 
lover of flowers better than a well-grown spike of either P. Schilleriana or 
P. amabilis? Because this genus does not respond readily to artificial 
cultivation, the modern grower of Orchids usually gives it a wide berth. 
This may, of course, not be due directly to the fact that Phalznopsis has 
got the name of a miffy doer. It may be attributed, of course, to the 
arrival in recent years of so many new and grand species, and hybrids of 
Various genera, which have to some extent ousted them. Be that as it may, 
Phalznopsis still hold their own, and not one recent introduction, with the 
exception of Dendrobium Phalznopsis, can hold a candle to them for grace 
and beauty. I know well enough that Phalenopsis have got the reputation 
of being bad growers on the whole, yet curiously enough they are no 
trouble whatever to grow in the neighbourhood of London. This may be 
accounted for I think in two ways, either it is that soot acts on them as a 
beneficial fertilizer, or it may be that the fact of the flowers rarely opening 
(the fogs causing the buds to drop) prevents them from becoming 
weakened. However, the fact remains that they are rarely failures in 
London, while in country places they frequently are. There are exceptions, 
however, for they are grown successfully in some collections in the 
country. How beautiful Mr. Hiems used to grow them for, A. 
Philbrick, Esq., Q.c., at Avenue Road, Regent’s Park, about eighteen years 
“89, only those who saw them know. Yet those very same plants did 
equally well, and if we take the flowering into consideration, better when 
the establishment was removed to Bickley Park, Kent. It has been said 
that Phaleenopsis require a particularly hot and humid atmosphere 
to grow them well, and therein lies, I think, the secret of many failures. 
While admitting that they are uudoubtedly Stove Orchids, and must cma 
Considerable warmth, yet they may have too much. Mr. Hiems never use 
