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BARKERIA LINDLEYANA. 
state, ascends the flower-stem, one foot to eighteen inches, bearing on its upper 
portion the flowers, which are not produced at any particular season, and remain a 
great length of time in perfection. Our drawing was taken from a plant, blooming 
among Mrs. Lawrence's Orchids last December. 
There is no better criterion of how congenial to the welfare of the superior 
Orchidaceous plants is the temperature, &c, of a house in which they are growing, 
than the circumstance of the lovely Barkeria, and such plants, flourishing in it. It 
is usual to grow B. Lindleyana in an openly-formed rough wooden basket, loosely 
filled with fibrous peat, potsherds, and sphagnum moss, or to attach it to a naked 
block of wood. A temperature moderately warm and moist when growing, and cool 
and proportionately dry when the plant is in a state of rest, is necessary to its 
welfare. It is increased in the usual way, that is, by detaching the pseudo-bulbs 
from each other about the time they burst into growth. 
The genus is founded on B. elegans, and compliments the late G. Barker, 
Esq., of Springfield, near Birmingham, a celebrated grower of Orchids. 
