﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Vol. XII.] OCTOBER, igo 4 . [No. 142. 



THE AMATEUR'S COLLECTION. 



We now come to the Intermediate house, as the warmer of the two divisions 

 mentioned at page 260 may be called. Here the beautiful genus Cattleya 

 would be strongly represented, as the majority succeed well in this depart- 

 ment, and several of them are eminently suitable for the amateur's 

 collection. They require very similar treatment, except that allowance 

 must be made for the different periods of growth and flowering of some of 



In making a selection we may take the popular labiata group first, and 

 will commence with the old autumn-flowering C. labiata, which has been 

 re-introduced in quantity during recent years, and which will soon be 

 making its annual display. It takes a rest of about two months' duration 

 after its pseudobulbs are mature, and then produces its brilliant flowers, 

 which expand during October and November. C. Trianse is another very- 

 popular species, which generally flowers from February to March, or 

 occasionally a little earlier or later. C. Schroederse is very similar, but 

 flowers on the whole a little later. C. Mossise and C. Mendelii are two 

 very popular species which flower from April to June, like the two preceding, 

 on the pseudobulbs of the previous year. The summer blooming kinds, 

 on the contrary, produce their flowers at the apex of the young pseudo- 

 bulbs, as soon as they are matured, without any interval of rest. Among 

 these may be mentioned C. Warned, flowering in June and July, C. 

 Warscewiczii and C. Gaskelliana, two very popular kinds, flowering in July 

 and August, and C. Dowiana, which differs from all the others in having 

 yellow sepals and petals, in September and October. 



Of the diphyllous section of the genus, C. Loddigesii and C. intermedia 

 are two of the best, the former having light purple flowers, and the latter 

 white with the front lobe of the lip purple. C. Leopoldi has green sepals 

 and petals spotted with purple-brown, and C. amethystoglossa white spotted 

 with purple. C. citrina differs from all the others in its pendulous habit, 

 hence the plants should be fixed to blocks of wood with a little fibrous peat 

 about the roots, or, better still, to shallow pans, which should be wired so 



