House and Garden 
petals are bluish red, 
the sepals old rose, 
and the lahellum a 
deep velvety magenta. 
The various Cattle- 
yas differ in habit, hut 
all the flowers are 
borne o n u plight 
scapes with the excep¬ 
tion of C. c itri na, 
which is produced 
from the apex of the 
pseudohulh and is en¬ 
closed (in the hulh 
state) in a sheath. 
“I'heir culture is ex¬ 
tremely simple and 
great numbers are 
well suited for the In¬ 
termediate house,” 
our guide informed us. ” As you see, they are placed 
in pots or pans well drained, and can be selected so 
that some of a group would he in bloom each month 
of the year. 
“1 he hack bulbs of all the Cattleyas, after blos¬ 
soming, are of no further use for flowering again, 
d'hey simply serve as reservoirs for the plants, as they 
store up nutriment during the growing or wet season 
for use in the dry season. I'he old pseudohulhs, or 
enlarged aerial stems, apparently of no use to the eye 
of the inexperienced in this culture, are still a part of 
the plant and continue to render assistance for 
years.” In buying Cattleyas, let us say that the best 
fully developed hulh should he supported by at least 
three or four hack ones to give strength and nourish¬ 
ment to the new grow th. Of the Dendrobium family. 
HOUSE OF CAITI.KY.'X TRI.AN.®, GENERAL VARIETY 
grown chiefly in Asia, a useful and beautiful species, 
we found the Dendrobium nobile, a native of India, one 
of the oldest known plants, not expensive and having 
the advantage that its blooms are formed on the pre¬ 
vious year’s growth. The DenJrobnun Phalcenopsis, 
from North Australia, and well worthy of notice, had 
as many as twenty to twenty-four delicate pink blos¬ 
soms on a single spike. This plant, the finest for 
cutting purposes, delights in an abundance of heat 
and moisture and is worth from ^2.00 to ^5.00. Our 
guide pointed to a pure wdiite variety of the same 
plant, remarking—“ It is very rare and is worth ^300.” 
An accompanying photograph shows a hanging 
box of the dainty Siamese D. infundibulum wdth its 
slender bulbs and mass of light pink blossoms. 
I'he OdontoglossLims (named from their resem¬ 
blance to the tooth 
and tongue) and the 
Oncidiums, also inter- 
esting genera of 
orchids, were grown 
successfully under 
cool treatment and 
therefore cultivated at 
moderate cost. Some 
of these varieties, if 
grouped together, 
would furnish a sup¬ 
ply of the most 
charming flowers 
the year round, 
r h e Odontoglossum 
cri spurn, already 
mentioned and the 
Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei from New 
Granada, w' h i c h 
produces branched 
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