. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SBPTEMBEn 12, 1912. The Florists^ Review 13. SEASONABLE NOTES. Deudiobiums. Some of the varieties which are de- ciduous when in flower now have pseudo-bulbs well made up. After the last leaf has appeared in the end of the bulb, a gradual reduction in the water supply should be made, and the plants removed from the close, warm, moist house, where they have been growing, to cooler, drier and airier quarters, where the bulbs can be well ripened. This applies to such sorts as the showy and popular D, Wardianum, also D. primulinum, D. chrysanthum, D. De
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SBPTEMBEn 12, 1912. The Florists^ Review 13. SEASONABLE NOTES. Deudiobiums. Some of the varieties which are de- ciduous when in flower now have pseudo-bulbs well made up. After the last leaf has appeared in the end of the bulb, a gradual reduction in the water supply should be made, and the plants removed from the close, warm, moist house, where they have been growing, to cooler, drier and airier quarters, where the bulbs can be well ripened. This applies to such sorts as the showy and popular D, Wardianum, also D. primulinum, D. chrysanthum, D. Devonianum and some others. D. nobile and its many varieties, also nu- merous hybrids, should be given a brisk, moist heat until their growths are completed, when they also should be moved to drier quarters, where they will be shielded from the direct sun. Do not cut off the water supply at once; this would be disastrous. Where young shoots or aerial growths appear, they can be cut off and placed in small pots or pans of sphagnum and fern fiber. Grown warm, they will soon be- come established. D. Phalffinopsis should now be com- ing into flower, and will continue to do so for some weeks. After the flowers start to open, it is better to give the plants somewhat cooler quarters, but it is not advisable to keep them lower than 60 degrees at night or the flowers will not open satisfactorily. This den- drobe succeeds best in pots or pans not over six inches in diameter. It dislikes large receptacles; the finest spikes we have seen, carrying fifteen to twenty or more flowers each, were always in small pans. The variety D. Phalsenop- sis Schrcederianum, now flowering, is better than the type, D. Phalsenopsis, whichy however, is useful, generally being in season for Christmas. Coelogyne Cristata. This popular orchid is now in active growth, and the bulbs discernible at the base of the shoots. Here is a variety which resents anything in the nature of coddling; an ordinary greenhouse grows
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