As the season of active growth is now getting to a close, it is
advisable to ripen off gradually the pseudo-bulbs and strong healthy
shoots by keeping up a genial atmosphere, ranging from 70 deg. to
80 deg., with abundance of air in favourable weather. Cattleyas,
_Epidendrum Skinneri_, Laelias, _Lycaste Skinneri_, and _Odontoglossum
grande_, to be kept rather cool, and to be slightly syringed
occasionally. Water to be given more sparingly to all the plants except
such as are growing freely. Shading to be now dispensed with as much as
possible, that the plants may have the benefit of the ripening influence
of the sun.