The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . iiiitijf mmBi^m-/.. ORCHIDACE.^.No. v. Conclusion.—In closing these remarks, I maymention that I am satisfied, after repeated trials, thatmany sorts of Orchidacete do best upon naked crispura and its varieties would not grow atall in pots or baskets, but as soon as they were placedupon naked blocks they began to put out healthy youngroots, and fine young shoots soon afterwards began tomake their appearance. Oncidium Forbesii has been inmy opinion almost lost in this country, by growing it inpots or on logs covered with Moss. A s
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . iiiitijf mmBi^m-/.. ORCHIDACE.^.No. v. Conclusion.—In closing these remarks, I maymention that I am satisfied, after repeated trials, thatmany sorts of Orchidacete do best upon naked crispura and its varieties would not grow atall in pots or baskets, but as soon as they were placedupon naked blocks they began to put out healthy youngroots, and fine young shoots soon afterwards began tomake their appearance. Oncidium Forbesii has been inmy opinion almost lost in this country, by growing it inpots or on logs covered with Moss. A small plant ^hich Iunknowingly purchased atMr. Harrisons sule, was fastenedto a naked log, on which it grew and flowered ^Iia autumnalis, though it grew with me pretty well ina pot, did not flower freely (only once in four years), butwhen put on a log it made large pseudo-bulbs, and pro-duced two fine spikes of flowers ; it is a fine difficult plant to grow (at all), Lselia majalis, suc-ceeds well on logs without Moss. I have been informedthat
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