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Paphiopedilum insigne Sandere is a very finely developed flower, while P. 
Spicerianum, X Arthurianum, x Erato, and Fowlerz are all good. There 
is a good flower of Cattleya labiata, anda form with curiously streaked sepals 
and petals, which comes the same each year, but is not an improvement. 
Others are C. Bowringiana, with its hybrids C. x Portia and C. x Mantinii, 
a four-flowered spike of the chaste Masdevallia tovarensis, M. Barleana and 
M. amabilis, Restrepia maculata, Epidendrum Wallisii, Ccelogyne speciosa, 
Trichopilia coccinea, Vanda ccerulea, Stenoglottis longifolia, Seraphyta 
multiflora, a brightly-coloured Phalznopsis Esmeralda, Calanthe vestita, 
Bulbophyllum crassipes, and B. Careyanum. Most of them are familiar 
autumn-flowering species, and one can easily realise the interest of a 
collection with such a varied assemblage of plants in bloom, and many of 
them of such beauty. 
EPIDENDRUM PARKINSONIANUM. 
Tuts Orchid is best grown on a raft made of teak wood, and this should be 
large in proportion to the size of the plant, and when the latter becomes 
too large for the one on which it is growing, a fresh piece should be nailed 
on to the back of the old raft, as too many roots would be injured by the 
removal of the plant from one raft toanother. For compost use Osmunda 
fibre in large pieces and sphagnum moss, tying this and the plant to the 
raft by means of copper wire. I give this Orchid no shade throughout the 
year, and it is hung against a wall facing south at the warmest end ofa 
Cattleya house. Water is given in liberal quantities, by means of a syringe, 
at all seasons, except on cold wintry days, and for a fortnight after the 
flowers have faded. At other times never let the compost get dry, and 
leaves and roots should be always quite damp. Syringing morning and 
evening during the summer is necessary, but generally once a day at other 
seasons. A temperature never falling below 50° F. in winter, with a 
proportional rise in spring and summer, is necessary. 
One point, on which I lay all the success achieved with this plant, is, no 
doubt, startling at first sight, but the value of which has been proved by 
experiment. It is in regard to feeding. Weak liquid guano should be 
given once a week whilst this plant is in full growth, and when sending out 
its flowers. Two years ago I fed one plant as described above, and it 
produced three flowers from one lead. The other plant, which was of the 
same size, was unfed, and produced only one small flower from a lead. 
This year the plant which had been fed produced three flowers from two 
leads, six in all, and the longest lead measured fifteen inches. The plant 
which was unfed only produced one flower from one lead, and the longest 
growth was eight inches. From the above, it can be seen that Epidendrum 
Parkinsonianum is benefited by feeding. ALWYN HARRISON. 
