fore repotting and we suggest a soft bristle, half-inch paint brush with a 
recognized insecticide. It is especially important to clean around the 
rhyzome where scale might lie. Dry, loose, protective skin should be re- 
moved from the bulbs. An ideal sized plant, unless one is going in for speci- 
mens, is four to five bulbs. We therefore recommend pruning, by cutting 
through the rhyzome, unnecessary back bulbs, leaving the front of the plant 
with four or five good bulbs. 
SELECTING NEW POT SIZE. DO NOT:‘OVER POT. An Orchid plant 
with a healthy root system should be potted for a two year growth period. 
In selecting the pot for such a plant, one should hold the trimmed plant 
inside the new pot and make allowances for at least two additional growths, 
representing two years, 
In the case of a plant not being in healthy condition, and with a poor 
root system, do not allow for more than a one year growth period. This 
plant, after regaining its vigor, can then be sghifited the following year into a 
larger sized pot. 
CROCKING. Good drainage is essential to all Orchids. In the case of 
Cattleyas, we recommend filling the pot with a third clean broken crock. 
Other varieties that require more draining are indicated throughout the 
pamphlet. 
SETTING THE PLANT. After a plant has been selected, cleaned and 
made ready for potting, place some Osmunda Fibre on the top of the crocks 
and, holding the plant with the left hand at the rhyzome, set it in position 
in ‘the pot so that the back of ithe plant touches the edge of the pot. Keep the 
rhyzome a half-inch down from the rim of the pot and level. With the other 
hand, insert compost around the plant, setting it temporarily and with the 
potting stick ram the material down tight. All Cattleyas and their hybrids 
must be potted firm for best resuls. By inserting the potting stick down 
along the inside of the pot, and wedging the point inwards, the material will 
naturally tighten toward the center. In the space made by the potting stick, 
insert more material, and continue this operation all around the pot, until the 
compost is very firm. It is important that the material in the center of the 
pot around the rhyzome be as firm as that around the edge of the pot, and 
this result can only be obtained by the leverage process of inserting the 
stick and pressing inwards. In cutting in the compost, try to maintain it 
level with the bottom of the eyes on the front bulbs. The rhyzome and eyes 
of the leading bulbs should not be buried, but should be exposed. In some 
cases where the rhyzome is on a decided slant, it may be necessary to cover 
the back of the rhyzome and some of the back bulbs. This method of potting 
should give you all possible opportunities to get more than one lead from 
the front of your plant, as the eyes are the plant’s potential new bulbs. By 
keeping the rhyzome and compost level a half-inch below the rim of the pot, 
the problem of watering is made simple as all plants so potted, when filled 
to the rim with water, will receive the same amount proportionately, regard- 
less of size of pot. Please note watering of the repotted plants under Gen- 
eral Culture. 
