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carefully watered. Bedding and other plants in pots and frames should not at 
present have any more water than is absolutely necessary. Give them all the air 
possible ; in wet weather tilt the lights alternately back and front, and see that 
they are well covered at night during frost.—M. Saul, Stonrton. 
ANiECTOCHILUS ORTGIESIL 
OTP' XAMPLES of this pretty dwarf variegated-leaved orchid were shown at 
the Birmingham Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, by Messrs. 
Carter and Co., who hold the stock of it. On this occasion it gained a 
first-class certificate, and another was awarded to it subsequently by the 
Royal Botanic Society. It is described as being mackerel-spotted. The leaves 
are narrowly ovate, of a light olive-green colour, silvery along the central portion, 
and blotched all over with largish spots or blotches of a kind of metallic purple. 
The plant has been collected by Roezl, in New Grenada. In its native habitat 
it grows at a high elevation, in shady positions, and hence it will probably 
succeed best in a cool stove or cool orchid house, where it may be grown in 
company with Selaginellas and Ferns.—T. M. 
RASPBERRIES IN WET SEASONS. 
HAVE often been struck with the superiority in size and flavour of Raspberries 
grown in the North, as compared with the same varieties in the South or 
Wjb East. This excessively wet season has revealed the reason : the Raspberry 
loves moisture—though rain soon rots the fruit, the plants like it; whence, 
I believe, the unusual crops this season, where they were not thinned or destroyed 
by the May frosts. This suggests the wisdom of plying the hose or water-cart 
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