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BARKERIA LINDLEYANA. 
state, ascends the flower-stem, one foot to eighteen inches, bearing on its uppei 
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. Lawrences Orchids last December. 
There is no better criterion of how congenial to the welfare of the superioi 
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 
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, 
pseudo-bulbs 
