THE ORCHID WORT.n. 
In another cool house Cochlioda vulcanica 
is flowering freely for the thirteenth year in 
succession ; 
and by its side 
can be seen a 
plant of the 
rare C. striata 
and of the yel- 
1 o w Odonto- 
g I 0 s s u ni 
grand e Pittm, 
both in robust 
condition; 
while near the 
door IS a large 
batch of Odon- 
ioglossum Pes- 
catorei, making 
fine flowering 
pseudo-bulbs. 
L I s soc kilns 
stylites is in 
full flower in a 
stove ; the 
blossoms have 
been open over 
nine weeks, 
and are still 
fresh. L.gigan- 
teiis is growing 
in a large pan 
of water, but, 
although 
thoroughly 
dried in the 
winter, it has 
made no 
attempt to 
bloom this 
year. 
A very use- 
ful device, 
wherever large 
specimen 
plants are 
grown, is a re- 
volving pedes- 
tal, o r turn- Cirrhopetalum 
table, which Sir Trevor Lawrence had 
made by the local ironmonger ; on these 
the large plants can be easily turned round 
and the other side inspected or placed towards 
the light. 
Plants thus 
treated were 
large speci- 
mens of An- 
grcecinn sesqui- 
pedale,A.ebur- 
nciim, Ornithi- 
diiim sophro- 
m/is, Ccclogync 
as per at a, Cy- 
pripediums, etc. 
A rare and 
generally re- 
fractory plant 
to grow well is 
D c n d ro biinn 
H 00 k erianum 
(syn. chrysotis). 
Here, however, 
a suitable place 
for it has been 
found in the 
p/incipal Catt- 
leya house, 
where, sus- 
pended from 
the roof, its 
bulbs continue 
to grow, year 
after year, not 
by side shoots 
only from the 
old bulbs, as is 
usual m most 
Dendrobes, but 
by continuous 
growth from 
the end of the 
bulb made the 
previous year, 
so that it is 
difficult to dis- 
cern where one 
season's 
longissimum. growth finishes 
and the next one commences. It is now 
flowering from the part of the bulb made this 
