Many hesitate to grow the beautiful tropical orchids, under the belief that they require expensive houses, and expensive skill to manage. This may be so of many kinds, but there are numbers which will do very well under simple treatment. The writer had a small plant of Catleya Mossae some six or seven years ago, growing in moss in a galvanized-wire basket, which produced one spike of flowers in March, in a cool greenhouse - say about 550 or 600 . In May it is suspended in the open-air on a branch of a tree, and remains till the middle of September, when it is removed to its old place in the cool house. In a couple of years of this treatment it bore two flowers yearly, and the next spring three pseudo-bulbs will flower.