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ODONTOGLOSSUM CERVANTESII. 
These plants may either be grown in pots or baskets, or fastened to a block o 
wood. To produce vigorous pseudo-bulbs, they require to be placed in a warm 
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moist, and shaded atmosphere, during the period of growth ; and to promoti' 
flowering, they should be exposed to converse influences in their winter season 
The transition from the one to the other must be gradual ; as the plants shov 
evidence of returning activity, warmth and humidity must be slowly augmented 
and as soon as the new growths are fully developed, these agents must be with 
drawn by degrees, and more light admitted. The plants should never be kept ii 
a warm or moist place while the flowers are open, as these conditions would hasten 
their decay. 
An increase may be efiected by detaching the old pseudo-bulbs, and placin 
them on coarse, moist sand, over some source of bottom-heat, till buds are developed; 
after which they may be treated as other plants. 
The specific name was accorded by La Llave, in compliment to Vincent! 
Cervantes, a Spanish Botanist. ' ^ 
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