They can be grown as easily as Grandmother's Boston Ferns in an Eastern or 
Southern window during the Winter months. During Summer place them out-of- 
doors in the shade. Plant them in a good composted soil with bone meal or super- 
phosphate added (tablespoonful to a 6” pot of soil). After a new growth has started 
about 6” high you may mulch with cow manure or feed with liquid nutrient solutions 
once a week until Fall. Keep them damp as they will take copious supplies of water 
especially during the Summer growing months. Best time to repot is after flowering. 
Place either one or two bulbs in a 6” pot. You can propagate the small buiblets from 
the base of the older bulbs by breaking them off and placing in 3 or 4” pots. You can 
also air layer the flowerspike by cutting it off after flowering and covering with damp 
sphagnum moss in a flat and plantlets will form at some of the Nodes (joints of the 
flower stem). 
If you have never grown orchids—this is a fine specie to start with—it grows in 
soil just like any common garden p!ant and will respond with ordinary care. 
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CALANTHE SPRAY ORCHID 
This terrestial orchid from India is easily grown in a rich loam soil. (Repot 
March-April) with good drainage in the bottom of the pot. Generally, bulbs should 
be potted in a 5” or 6” pot. The bulbs should be planted about one inch below the 
larger end of the bulb so that the new growths will sprout easily and develop. Water 
after potting but do not keep too wet until roots begin to form from new growths. 
They like weekly or bi-monthly feedings of weak fertilizer solutions of any good 
organic fertilizer (blood—sheep manure) or inorganic fertilizers as (Wilson’s Orchid 
Fertilizer, etc.) The growth should produce large leaves and finish the bulbs in 
July. Then begin a slight withholding of water as the bulbs want a rest for 
maturing before flowering. The leaves will drop off and the spike start to emerge 
from the base of the bulb in October. The long, arching sprays will be open around 
Thanksgiving and last until after New Year. 
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