summer. It is made with a false bottom with bars, like an 
ordinary drain, and is most useful for growing epiphytal Or¬ 
chids, as it admits of the free circulation of air among the 
roots, which is of such great importance to epiphytal Orchids, 
and obviates the use of the objectionable potsherds for drain¬ 
ing, which tend so much to harbour insects and produce fungi. 
The false bottom fits into the Orchid-pot about two or three 
inches below the rim, the whole of the part underneath being 
open to the air. 
