. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ity, if the sun is not allowed to shine upon them ere they havethawed. Keep the stove and Orchidaceous house at a low rather than a very high tempe-rature, reserving a pit with a more genial atmosphere for the growing forcing is begun, the plants may be started wth a heat of ;)0°, which canbe gradually raised as the growth advances. Introduce fresh plants to the forcing-house for succession, and keep a suppl_y in a cold pit to be moved to a highertemperature as they may be required. Plant bulbs in the flower-beds or bo
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ity, if the sun is not allowed to shine upon them ere they havethawed. Keep the stove and Orchidaceous house at a low rather than a very high tempe-rature, reserving a pit with a more genial atmosphere for the growing forcing is begun, the plants may be started wth a heat of ;)0°, which canbe gradually raised as the growth advances. Introduce fresh plants to the forcing-house for succession, and keep a suppl_y in a cold pit to be moved to a highertemperature as they may be required. Plant bulbs in the flower-beds or borders,and pot such as have not yet been attended to. Slanure and dig over the beds thatLave been divested of half-hardy jilants. Still sow a few annual seeds in pots, andattend carefully, as to potting and watering, to the young plants raised fromprevious sowings. Be prepared, both in the houses and the open ground, for theoccurrence of frost in the early of the morning, which is sometimes nowexperienced when there is not the least sign of it at /,,,,/, ,„,/,.^,,„ . „/„. ,„ 241 AERIDES QUINQUEVULNERUM. (five-spotted flowered AIR-PLftNT.)CLASS. OUDRri. GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. natural Generic Character.—Perianth spreading or closed. Sepals lateral, often oblique at the base, claw connate with the column. Labellum with a claw jointed to the cohinin, saccate or spurred,tliree-lobed : lateral lobes short ; middle one cucuUate, or awl-shapcd, or shortly tumid, or partiallyarched. Column reclining on the ovary, short, winged. Anthers two-celled. Pollen-masses two,furrowed at the back ; caudicula broad or filiform ; gland peltate, subrotund. Specific Character.—Plant epiphytal. Leaves strap-siiaped, rounded and obliquely emarginate, \vitha little projecting point, at the top. liacemes pendulous, many-flowcrcd, longer than the and Petals thick, fleshy, whitish, speckled near the base, with a purplish stain at the extr
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