Orchids for everyone . owers, three or four inches across,are borne six or eight together in graceful drooping racemes inWinter or Spring ; if allowed to expand in a cool house they soondiscolour. In the type the lip is crested with yellow and has acentral blotch of the same colour. In the variety C. c. lemonianathe colour on the lip is pale lemon yellow, while in C. c. alba theblooms are entirely white. The flowers of this very beautiful andchaste Orchid are valuable for many kinds of floral decorations,especially for bouquets, but they must be handled with care becausebruised portions turn b
Orchids for everyone . owers, three or four inches across,are borne six or eight together in graceful drooping racemes inWinter or Spring ; if allowed to expand in a cool house they soondiscolour. In the type the lip is crested with yellow and has acentral blotch of the same colour. In the variety C. c. lemonianathe colour on the lip is pale lemon yellow, while in C. c. alba theblooms are entirely white. The flowers of this very beautiful andchaste Orchid are valuable for many kinds of floral decorations,especially for bouquets, but they must be handled with care becausebruised portions turn brown or black quickly. When the spikesare cut they must not be severed close to the pseudo-bulb, for it isfrom the sheathing base of the spike that the new growth comes,so that close cutting spoils the prospects for the following season. C. Dayana is a remarkable Bornean species that flowers inlate Spring or early Summer. It is a strong grower and is bestmanaged in a basket or pan suspended from the roof in the hottest. < H<! OP ^OO e THE MOST USEFUL ORCHIDS 49 Stove or East Indian House. Considered individually the bloomsare not large or very attractive, the colour being pale ochreousyellow, with chocolate brown lines and blotch on the lighter, oftenwhitish, lip. But these flowers are borne on graceful pendulousracemes from two to three feet long, and one of these racemes willconsist of two dozen blooms. A good specimen carrying a numberof these floral necklaces makes a charming picture. C. Massangeana comes from Assam and has much the samehabit as C. Dayana^ but is not quite such a strong grower. More-over, it will succeed in less heat than is necessary for the latterspecies. The Intermediate House will suit it. The pendulousracemes carry twenty or more flowers, which are light yellow, witha brown lip that is veined and crested with bright yellow and edgedwith white. C. OCELLATA, a pretty, compact species about nine inches high,is best grown in a shallow pan, with the O
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