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CYMBIDIUM DEVONIANUM. 
that can be kept from dropping to pieces too speedily, perhaps the best mode of 
growing it will be to place it in a small and open wooden basket, which can be 
filled with crumbling pieces of wood or lumps of very fibrous heath-mould. It 
might even be planted in a pot containing the same materials, provided these are 
raised sufficiently above the rim, properly drained, and suspended, or put on a 
trellis of any kind through which the water can pass away from them at the 
bottom. 
It can be kept warm and moist while growing ; but cooler and drier when 
dormant. By taking off one of the pseudo-bulbs, and treating it carefully as 
above directed, the plant may be increased, 
