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by being kept too wet at the roots. Orchids do not require to be kept so 
wet as is sometimes supposed ; it rots the compost and kills the roots, and 
what follows it is needless to say. When water is applied with moderation 
during the time the plants are growing, and they are kept on the dry side 
when inactive, repotting in many instances is really not necessary more 
than once in two or three years with these cool and intermediate species, 
and they are better if not pulled about for the purpose of repotting too 
often. 
Masdevallias that require a shift should be done this month. Peat and 
sphagnum moss in equal parts is the best compost. The peat need not be 
of the best fibrous nature for these, but it should be lumpy, so that the water 
passes away quickly. They are best managed, and are much more certain to 
produce a large amount of flower spikes, if grown in small pots—32’s are a 
convenient size for them. Like all other cool growing Orchids, the weather 
is rather too hot just now for this genus, but no harm can be done them if 
kept well shaded, and the ventilators and doors thrown open wide. Cool 
Orchids are injured by heat during summer only when they are kept too 
close. During winter they suffer from the effect of excessive cold also by 
the same means. 
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ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
ANGRECUM FOURNIERZ, ANDRE.—Rev. Hort., June 1, p- 256, with fig. 
This is A. stylosum, Rolfe. 
CATTLEYA Mossi# VAR. BEATRICE. — Gard. Mag., June 20, Pp. 406, 
with fig. 
Ca@LocynE VeitcHu, Rolfe—Wien Ill. Gart.-Zeit., May, pp- 187, 189, 
fig. 24. ' 
CYCNOCHES CHLOROCHILON.—The Garden, May 30, P- 493; with fig. 
Cyprirepium x RipotrianuM, Pucci.—Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort., March, 
P- 144, t. 4. 
DENDROBIUM FINDLAYANUM.—The Garden, June 13, P: 
Hapenarta Etwestt, Hook. f.—Bot. Mag., t- 7478+. 
L&LIA X ELEGANS VAR. TURNERI.—The Garden, May 23, p- 384, t- 1067- 
Lzuto-cattLevA X PytHo.—Journ. Hort., June 26, Pp- 579 588, 
fig. 102,* 
MILTONIA VEXILLARIA VAR. 
June 11, p. 537, fig. 88; Gard. Mag., June 13, 
Chron., June 20, p. 755+ 
SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM- 
fig. 76. 
. 446, t. 1070. 
“ Memoria G. D. Owen.”—Journ. Hort., 
p- 386, with fig. ; Gard. 
—Journ. Hort., May 21, pp- 461, 463, 
