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sunny position to finish their growth. They will require plenty of water 
until the foliage commences to change colour, when the supply can be 
gradually lessened till they lose all their foliage, when they will require 
only sufficient to keep them plump during the winter. Liquid manure 
occasionally will help them to make up fine bulbs. Keep them well 
syringed to keep the foliage clean, and give them every chance to make 
fine bulbs, and they will well repay with fine growths and flowers next 
season. 
SHADING.—By the end of July the shading on Cattleyas, Lelias, and 
Dendrobes can be lightened, and where the glass has been stippled with 
whitening or flour it should be washed off and the blinds only used, and the 
use of these should be gradually lessened, till by the middle of August they 
will only be needed far an hour or two in the middle of the day. With less 
shade the air, of course, must be increased on sunny days, and then the 
plants will ripen well without scalding. In ripening the plants, do not keep 
the atmosphere in the houses dry, or the result will be just the opposite to 
what is wanted. Many growers make a mistake in ripening by also 
shrivelling the newly finished bulbs, and then the plants are expected to 
flower. Much the same method should be used as in ripening fruit or 
colouring Crotons. 
WaTERING.—In the autumn the water supply should be reduced, but 
not withheld altogether, as isso often done. The ventilation should also be 
increased, but should not be left on in all weathers. The plants can be 
syringed, and the houses shut up in the afternoon for a few hours, air being 
again given in the evening in nice weather, as it saves general 
watering, and is much better for the plants. Picking plants out every 
morning is a waste of time, as nearly all the harder growing section will do 
with looking round for dry ones about every four or five days. In looking 
round daily it is always a temptation for a man to water a plant that looks 
a bit dry, even when it would be better left for a day or two, whereas if they 
are only done every four or five days there is not so much harm done in 
‘watering one that is neither wet or dry, as it has a chance to dry out by 
next watering day. 
CyYPRIPEDIUMS, PHAL@NOPSIS, and all the softer growing section, should 
be given every encouragement to make up their growth, as the best days will 
soon be past, and lost. Sunheat cannot be made up later on with fire heat. 
Where the glass is stippled the blinds can be left up longer in the mornings, 
and drawn up a little earlier in the afternoons, as the days shorten very 
rapidly, and the sun should be used whenever possible in preference tO 
fire heat. 
TEMPERATURES should not be allowed to drop suddenly at any time, but 
little or no fire heat need be used except in wet weather, and then only 
