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GUIDE TO THE CONSERVATORY. 



Catasetums grow well in a warm moist stove, 

 potted in peat earth having plenty of fibres in it, 

 and mixed with sphagnum chopped fine. Fine 

 light brown peat is far the best, providing it has 

 plenty of sphagnum in it, and fibry roots of heath 

 intermixed with a portion of white sand. Give an 

 abundance of water when growing, gradually di- 

 minishing it : when they have perfected their 

 growth, keep them quite dry during their season of 

 rest. 



Class, Gynandria. Order, Monandria. 



Cattleya guttata — Brazil — 1 830 — Division. 



Sepals green, spotted with red ; petals white ; 

 lip a beautiful purplish red. 

 — crispa — Rio Janeiro — 1826 — Division. 



A splendid species, with large flowers ; sepals 

 and petals white^ beautifully crisped round the 

 edges ; lip white, and handsomely marked in the 

 centre with a beautiful crimson purple. 

 > Forbesii — Rio Janeiro — 1823— Division. 



Sepals and petals yellow; lip pale yellow, 

 faintly spotted with red. 



labiata — Brazil — 1818 — October — Division. 



A most splendid species : flowers large ; sepals 

 and petals of the most delicate lilac ; lip beauti- 

 fully shaded, and veined with the most elegant 

 crimson, impossible to describe. 



