SEPTEMBER, Ig12.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 271 
CATTLEYA House. 
Since the lowest night temperature for this and the following month 
should be 60° Fahr., it is obvious that, for this house at any rate, fire heat 
is now imperative. Now that the summer has nearly passed, preparations 
must be made for the approaching winter, and this house should now be 
thoroughly overhauled, as has been just advised for the Cool house, and all 
plants carefully graded according to their requirements of heat and light. 
Place all Cattleya hybrids with the following as parents at the warmest end: 
C. Dowiana aurea, Warscewiczii (gigas), maxima, Skinneri, Eldorado, 
Lelia cinnabarina, and superbiens. As soon as Dendrobiums have finished 
their growth, they must be moved to the coolest end to rest. 
Be sure to remove all the liquid shading from off the roof glass, and the 
blinds will no longer be needed, as all possible light will be necessary to 
mature the forming bulbs. 
Damping down will be needed usually three times daily, as mentioned 
under the Cool house, and watering in the same proportion. Admit as 
much air as is consistent with maintaining the correct temperature, 7.¢., by 
day 65-75° Fahr. and 60-65° Fahr. at night. Many beautiful Orchids should 
now be in full bloom, particularly Cattleyas Dowiana aurea, Empress 
Frederick, Warscewiczii (gigas), Harrisoniana, Minucia, and others. 
Except for a brief three weeks, the sunshine this year has been by no 
means sufficient for Cattleyas, and I fear in some districts some of the 
winter-flowering C. Trianz will be weak. We generally regard August as 
a month in which cloudless sun will mature the bulbs of such Cattleyas as 
Percivaliana and Triane. 
Having been successful of late with the raising of seedlings of Cattleyas 
in a greenhouse, I shall explain my method of culture in next month’s 
article, together with the special culture of certain shy-flowering but 
beautiful Cattleyas. 
OBITUARY. 
F. M. Burton.—A veteran Orchidist passed away on May 16th last in 
the person of Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., Highfield, Gainsborough, 
at the age of 83. He had been an Orchid grower for about thirty years, 
and a subscriber to the Orchid Review and an occasional correspondent from 
the commencement until about a year ago, when age and failing health 
necessitated his relinquishing a favourite pursuit. He was greatly inter- 
ested in hybridisation, and raised a good number of Cypripediums, though 
generally to find that they had previously flowered elsewhere, as in the case 
of C. Burtoni and C. highfieldense. But he was more fortunate with a 
handsome Epidendrum raised from E. ibaguense and E. O’Brienianum, 
which was described in these pages in 1899, under the name of E. Burtoni 
