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EPIDENDRUM MACROCHILUM, var. ROSEUM. 
highly porous material, and suspended so that the racemes of flowers may bend 
gracefully over the side, it forms a most conspicuous and engaging object. 
Propagation may be effected by detaching some of the older pseudo-bulbs, and 
placing them in a gentle bottom-heat, when they will soon begin to swell the 
latent buds at their base, and produce fresh pseudo-bulbs. 
A high temperature is far from being the most appropriate. The cooler 
Orchidaceous house, or a close greenhouse, is more suitable. When in a growing 
condition they need a liberal supply of water at the roots, and frequent syringings 
will be found highly beneficial. An opposite course must be persisted in during 
the cessation of growth, as all moisture farther than merely what is sufficient to 
maintain the pseudo-bulbs full and unshrivelled, is pernicious, and frequently 
destructive at that period. 
