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the tints of their yellow and yellow-buff colour ; while 
the rich velvety crimson of the labellum is in some 
forms veined down to the margin, as in that of the 
subject of our illustration, whilst some have the lower 
portion of the lip unmarked with yellow, the veining 
being confined to the upper half and throat. 
The influence, too, of its neighbour, C. gigas, is 
may be expected, the name Cattleya aurea is well 
worth retaining. 
Culture.— Cattleya aurea grows well either in 
baskets or pots if placed in a suitable situation where 
it gets plenty of light, but the plant is always safer 
in baskets suspended near to the glass of the roof, 
and small or weak plants should always be so treated 
pot or basket. Directly after flowering, and when the 
growth is well advanced, the roots are put forth, and 
for the next two months during the period they are 
active, the plant requires the greatest amount of 
water, light and air. By the end of October the 
growths are mostly well made up, and from that time 
and throughout the whole of the winter the watering 
CATTLEYA AUBEA. 
already beginning to show itself, for last year a grand 
form quite intermediate in the lip between C. gigas 
and C. aurea, was flowered by Geo. Hardy, Esq., of 
Pickering Lodge, Timperly. This may be regarded 
as one of the finest things of the season, and it may well 
lead other growers to long for the appearance of such 
in their collections. If but for the sake of marking 
the importations from which such forms, however rare, 
It does not yet seem quite to have settled down to its 
proper time of growth and flowering, and therefore it 
must always rather be treated according to its stage 
of growth than to the season of the year. 
Generally speaking, it sends up its young growth 
in spring, and the flower-spike with the increasing 
growth in July and August, and after the flowers are 
over is the best time to shift it, if it requires a fresh 
should be carefully and even sparingly done, the 
plant being kept in an airy part of the Cattleya-house 
in order to keep it from growing out of season. So 
managed, the plant grows equally as well as C. gigas, 
and when time has acclimatized it, it will no doubt 
flower equally freely. Our illustration was prepared 
from a plant which flowered in Major Lendy’s collec¬ 
tion at Sunbury-on-Thames. 
