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fibrous peat, loam and silver sand. Let the pots be drained half full with 
crocks, and press the compost in moderately firm. Give but very little 
water until the new growths are about six inches high, which will tend to 
keep the pseudobulbs dwarf, and generally ensures free blooming. After 
this water may be given with greater freedom, with a little weak manure 
water occasionally. Let Thunias be grown in the full sun, in such a house 
as the Mexican or Cattleya house, or they will also grow well and strong in 
the warmest house, but they are not quite so reliable to flower. 
An eye should be given to the Habenarias, which have been enjoying a 
rest; they will soon now push new growth from the crowns, and when this 
is seen to be taking place they should be repotted. They are best and 
most successfully managed if grown singly in small pots, a large 60 being 
big enough for one large tuber. Let the crown of the tuber be level with 
the rim of the pot, and let the pot also be filled up level to its rim with 
broken crocks, peat, and sphagnum moss; water carefully at first, and place 
the plants well up to the light in a warm genial house, such as would suit 
Dendrobes that are just starting. As time and growth advances so will the 
plants delight in a larger supply of water. 
Bolleas, Pescatoreas, Stenias, Warscewiczellas, and such like Orchids, 
many of which will now be passing out of flower and breaking anew to 
form fresh growth, should now be attended to and repotted. There are 
some very beautiful and most interesting things amongst them, especially 
in the two first named genera, but they are not the freest of all to grow, and 
hence they have fallen out of cultivation somewhat. To get them to do 
well generally requires a little management. The most important point, 
however, is to find a suitable position for them, and this must be sought 
for in the warmest house—that is, either the East Indian House, or an 
ordinary stove—at a part which is rather shady and which keeps pretty 
tegular in temperature and is naturally moist. Bright sunshine is harmful, 
but they do not require to be kept so heavily shaded as is sometimes 
Supposed, especially when their position suits them in other — 
They may either be grown in pots or in baskets, and both answer equally 
well, though of the two I prefer the former. The pots should be crocked 
three-parts their depth with quite clean crocks and charcoal, a stout = 
should be fixed firmly in the centre, to which the plant can be made steady 
and well elevated above the rim, so that the sphagnum moss—I never use 
Peat to these—may be built up conically to its base from where the new 
Toots appear. They are fond of a good supply of water when Ae 
freely during the summer, but during winter will take much Tess, in fact t ’ 
Moss may then get quite white and crisp before water is applied. O 
Course this last is one of those little matters in which the weather should 
be the Principal guide, as with all other Orchids. 
