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recovering. A position in the Intermediate house is a very suitable one. 
They greatly resent a stuffy atmosphere at any season. The late flowering 
varieties should be treated in the same way when the new growths have 
made a good start. 
The propagation of these can be best done by cutting away the leading 
bulb when the new growth is about to emit roots, taking care to see that as 
many as possible of the roots attached to the bulbs are carefully worked 
out. When this is done do not then disturb the old plant till it has made 
a new lead. M. vexillaria responds very well to this mode of propagation, 
and it is really very surprising what fine bulbs can be got the first season. 
Another method, and a much more risky one, is to cut off very carefully the 
new growth just as roots are emitted, and these with care will grow away 
quickly and soon make good plants. When this is done the plant very soon 
makes another lead, and will oftentimes make up a bulb nearly if not quite 
as good as would have been expected from its first lead. Whichever method 
is followed it is all important that they should be kept well shaded, and 
sprayed over till the roots have made a fair start. It is not much good to 
keep the material wet till the roots have entered it, as there would be 
nothing to gain and much to lose by doing so. 
When the old plants have made a new lead shake them well out and pot 
them back. It is also very important that very little water should be given 
after the leads have been taken away till the new ones emit roots. 
EPIPHRONITIS VEITCHII.—This is a very charming hybrid when seen at 
its best, but, like many others where the parents are so different in habit, it 
is not one of the best growers with many, yet from time to time some really 
very fine plants, with large heads of flowers, are seen, making those of us who 
are less successful envious, and at the same time giving us an impetus to 
try and do likewise. The present time is a very suitable one to see to any 
potting or propagating necessary. I consider that the constant making up 
of young plants from the zrial side shoots is perhaps one of the most 
important factors towards success. By this means the stock soon anbalagenie: 
and when they are removed the basal growths have a much better chance of 
growing away and producing good heads of flowers. A compost made up 
of peat and sphagnum in equal parts, with plenty of small crocks and coarse 
sand, will meet their requirements. Give a liberal drainage of rhizomes 
over a few crocks, and pot rather lightly. A position in the Intermediate 
house should be given, choosing one where they can be very freely syringed, 
and also where a good deal of light can reach them. At no season do they 
require a dry treatment, but generally speaking they will keep sufficiently 
moist at the root from the overhead syringings. 
EpipENDRUMsS.— Many species of the scandent section are very effective, 
lasting in flower for a very long period. Although the flower heads on 
