Be careful that the night temperature is not raised too high: if kept
at 50 deg. in severe weather no ill consequences will result. The
atmosphere to be kept rather moist, especially if the weather is bright;
and all plants indicating an appearance of starting into bloom to be
removed to the warmest part of the house.
Clerodendrons.--To be shaken out of their pots; their roots reduced and
repotted into small pots in a light sandy loamy compost. Sow seeds, and
also of any hard-wooded stove plants.
Water to be given very cautiously to the Orchids, merely sufficient to
prevent the plants from shrivelling; and to do this effectually it is
necessary to look over them every day. The air of the house to be kept
moist by sprinkling the pathways, floors, tables, &c., daily. If any
plant is found not to have ripened off its bulbs it should be placed in
the warmest part of the house, and the ripening process encouraged. The
Brassias, Cyanoches, Coelogynes, Miltonias, and other such plants, when
they are beginning to grow, to be repotted. The compost to consist of
turfy peat mixed with a portion of charcoal or broken potsherds, and the
pots to be at least half full of very open drainage.