. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. yet more gracile than thestems, and bearing near its summit three,four, or more large pinkish-white are expanded about the month ofApril, and continue open many weeks.;i No particular treatment is demanded. The best way of managing it, however, isto place it in a wire basket containingsphagnum moss and potsherds, and sus-pend it in the lower part of the house; ifhung too high, it will lose much of itsinterest. It must be kept in a moist,warm, shaded house while growing, and ina more moderate temperature <ind dri
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. yet more gracile than thestems, and bearing near its summit three,four, or more large pinkish-white are expanded about the month ofApril, and continue open many weeks.;i No particular treatment is demanded. The best way of managing it, however, isto place it in a wire basket containingsphagnum moss and potsherds, and sus-pend it in the lower part of the house; ifhung too high, it will lose much of itsinterest. It must be kept in a moist,warm, shaded house while growing, and ina more moderate temperature <ind drier at-mosphere during winter. It can be pro-pagated by severing the stem just belowthe uppermost pseudo-bulb, and treatingthe latter as an independent plant. The genus was dedicated by Dr. Lindleyto the late Countess of Burlington, a ladyof whom it is needless to say more, thanthat the admirable species which bear hername furnish a peculiarly significant me-morial of her character; and that bothwill be cherished after the present genera-tion has passed
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