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Cattleya house. They are rarely at. rest, and should not be subjected to 
any vigorous drying treatment during the winter. They should be stood 
well up to the light, and I prefer to elevate them on pots, and have the 
staging well raised, to suspending them from the rafters, and as they are 
dwarf growing plants, it will be found a good plan to keep them together in 
a group, for fear they get neglected or overshadowed among larger growing 
plants. - They require to be carefully—rather closely—shaded during the 
spring and summer months, otherwise they will lose their naturally healthy 
green colour and become yellow, lean and starved. Sophronitis grandiflora 
Fig. 28. SOPHROCATILEYA BLACKII. 
(Sepals and petals ch cardinal red: labellum darker, 
with yellow stripes in throat-) 
thrives and flowers immensely with less light than one would give to most 
Cattleyas, and its hybrids take after it in some considerable degree. If the 
plants are kept healthy they break pretty freely, and compact little specimens 
can soon be built up. 
From early autumn till early spring might be termed their flowering 
Season, but they frequently throw up their blossoms during the summer 
