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can be got in a house, without allowing the walls to get slimy and 
green enough to hold moisture. Potting composts can also be prepared for 
use when the busy season comes round again, then nothing has to be 
neglected when it ought to be growing. Loam, peat, and crushed crocks 
‘can be mixed for Cypripedes and put in bags, Osmunda and Polypodium, 
fibre and leaves, for-Cattleyas, &c. The moss need not be added till the 
‘compost is required for use. A bag of crushed crocks will always be found 
useful in the busy season, and crocks for crocking pots prepared for use now, 
all saves time later on. 
TEMPERATURES will be safe if kept as advised in last month’s Calendar. 
‘Where blinds are used for winter they should be run down at night, as we 
‘May expect frosts at any time now, and they area great help in keeping the 
temperatures correct. Keep the fires in hand, and do not let the 
‘temperatures run up and down. Anyhow keep them as even as possible, 
and one can get through the winter much more easily. 
WATERING will have to be done carefully now the days are getting short. 
Do not overwater, but give sufficient to keep the plants from getting dust 
‘dry. If uncertain whether a plant is dry enough for watering, don’t be 
‘tempted to water it on chance; leave it another day or two, and it will 
grow all the better for it. If plants are looked over about twice a week one 
will not be tempted quite so often, and the plants will take no harm when 
“standing from say Wednesday till Saturday. Of course I am not including 
seedlings, which must be carefully watched practically day and night. 
The warm houses will need damping down at least twice a day, the 
-cooler ones in the morning, and if dry again in the afternoon. 
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ORCHIDS AT RAWDON, LEEDS. 
BEING in the neighbourhood of Rawdon recently, I decided to pay a visit 
‘to the Orchid Nursery of Messrs. J. W. Moore, Ltd. I was well rewarded, 
for the collection proved to be a most interesting one, and any lover of 
“Orchids should not miss the opportunity of a visit, should it occur. 
Entering the corridor of the first range of houses, one comes in contact 
‘with a group of choice flowering plants, well arranged with palms and 
ferns, and some well-grown specimens of Cymbidium, which give a pleasing 
-effect to the entrance. The first range running out of the corridor contains 
“some very choice Paphiopedilums, including P. x Rainbow superbum, X 
_Emerald, x aureum var. (Edippe, X aureum Surprise, the beautiful P. xX 
Maudiz, a very healthy batch of P. Fairrieanum, and numerous other 
species. This house also contains a splendid collection of very interesting 
-and many rare Bulbophyllums and Cirrhopetalums. I noted in flower 
B. barbigerum, B. Godseffianum, B. calamarium, B. maculosum, C. orna- 
‘tissimum and C. biflorum, and among those not in bloom were such 
