. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. Shading. Up to the present we have not been favoted with high temperatures; in fact, it has been unseasonably cold most of the spring, with considerable cloudiness and precipitation. "Under conditions such as have prevailed, orchids which were lightly shaded will have fared the best. It is during the prolonged cold and sunless spells of weather that those who have movable lath blinds have a great advantage over those who paint kerosene and white lead or some similar shading on the glass. But while light shading has adva
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. Shading. Up to the present we have not been favoted with high temperatures; in fact, it has been unseasonably cold most of the spring, with considerable cloudiness and precipitation. "Under conditions such as have prevailed, orchids which were lightly shaded will have fared the best. It is during the prolonged cold and sunless spells of weather that those who have movable lath blinds have a great advantage over those who paint kerosene and white lead or some similar shading on the glass. But while light shading has advantages for eattleyas and laelias, phalffnopsis, cypripediums and niil- tonias want a heavier shade, as do calanthes, dendrobes and odontoglos- sums. An hour or two of direct, bright sunshine after this date may do serious injury to them. Streak shading has some advantages. This consists sim- ply of painting strips three to four inches wide and leaving similar widths clean. It is easy to make brushes that have sufficient width to cover 16-inch glass. Feeding. Plants now are nearly all in more active growth and water supplies must be increased. It is, however, always safer to let the plants go a little on the dry side rather than the reverse. Cattleyas, recently potted, are making roots more freely, but water these with care. Do not imagine, because some active roots are pushing, that the plants need a daily soaking. All cat- tleyas, Iselias, cypripediums, ccelogynes, in fact all orchids, are benefited by a light spraying overhead daily at this season, when the weather is clear. Apply this sufficiently early so that the plants will be dry before sunset. The subject of feeding orchids gives rise to antagonistic views. Some de- nounce it as extremely harmful and show plants of astonishing vigor which have nej^er been fed. Others will produce plants which will win applause and we are told that feeding did it. When practitioners thus differ who is to decide? There is surely some midd
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