140 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May, 1906, 
and, where room can be spared them, the Cymbidiums are most generous - 
plants to grow. Any plants at present in flower or spike must not be 
disturbed, of course, until flowering is over. j 
Lycaste Skinneri, &c., which require a shift, should be repotted when 
the new growth is two or three inches high. The compost for Cymbidiums: 
will also be found suitable for these. They are grown in the Cooi or 
Intermediate house. ; 
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psis, with the variety Statterianum, D. bigibbum, q 
and the aliied D. superbiens are now starting, and the present is the season ’ 
to re-pot them. These species do not like large receptacles, and should be 
potted firmly in the compost recommended last month. They do not like 
root disturbance, and are best left alone when the compost is sweet, even 4 
if apparently pot-bound. D. Brymerianum can have the same treatment. D. 
fimbriatum is a much stronger grower, and should have a much larger pot, 
but it, too, is shy at being disturbed. : 
There are a great many other Orchids which will require repotting at 
this season, which it would be onerous, if not impossible, to name. a 
Portinc SHED a NeceEsstry.—Every Orchid establishment of any 
pretensions should have a light and commodious potting shed. i 
should be so constructed that it can be kept warm in winter, and so situated a 
as to be easily got at from all the houses. The practice of potting in the — 
houses in which the plants are growing is, besides being slovenly, most 
unfair to the operators, for men cannot work with comfort and dispatch — 
under those conditions. Now that the houses are getting very hot, one — 
should spend as little time in them as possible during the height of the day. — 
Watering can be got over before the sun gets very high. When plants are — 
in the potting shed being repotted, tying them up and cleaning them 
also be performed, so that the routine work of damping, syringing,-and 
ventilating should be the most that is required to be done actually in the — 
houses during the hot weather. : 
The potting shed should not be a place for storing away all the old 
lumber that will accumulate, but a workshop in which tidiness and order 
should prevail. One should make it a rule never to store away dirty pots, ; 
so that clean pots may always be at hand when wanted, packed away 7 
their respective sizes. This may seem a small matter, but where there ate 
many thousands of plants to pot, it is only by method that the work can be 
got through smoothly. It is a sad spectacle to see a man grubbing about 
in a heap of dirty pots and pans of all sizes for the size wanted, which, 
when found, must be washed before work can proceed, 
Tue Art oF Porrinc.—Potting Orchids is not now neatly such @ 
serious business as it was some years ago, and, in fact, the whole ques 
of growing them is now carried on with much less fuss. For every hundred 
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