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produced a great alteration, and plants can be readily bad in 
flower for two months or even longer during the summer ; and as 
they also produce flowers at other periods of the year, it is seldom 
where a good stock is grown that some of its rich blooms are not 
obtainable. This is a fine companion for the cool Odontoglossums, 
as it succeeds well in a cool temperature with abundance of mois¬ 
ture at all times, and if grown in shallow pots or pans well drained 
and filled with good fibrous peat the best result can be ensured 
Pi . 93.—Epidekdrcm cochleatum. 
with the most ordinary care. Small plants are especially useful 
for associating with the white or light-coloured Odontoglots, par¬ 
ticularly where an Orchid show house is provided, which, by the 
way, is a most useful adjunct wherever these plants are largely 
grown. 
The originally introduced form of E. vitellinum, such as that, 
for instance, which is figured in the “Botanical Register” for 
1840, bad orange-yellow flowers comparatively small, though then 
much appreciated as presenting so distinct a shade of colour in 
Orchids. Now we have far better varieties of a rich orange- 
