Table of Temperatures for Orchid Houses

Months.	Warm House, East Indian.		Cattleya or Intermediate House.		Cool or Odontoglossum House.
	Day.	Night.	Day.	Night.	Day.	Night.
January	65-70	60	60-65	55	50-55	45
February	65-70	60	60-65	55	50-55	45
March	65-70	60	60-65	55	55-60	50
April	65-70	60	60-65	55	55-60	50
May	70-75	65	65-70	60	60-65	55
June	75-80	65	70-75	60	60-65	55
July	75-85	65	70-80	65	60-70	55
August	75-85	65	70-80	65	60-70	55
September	75-80	65	70-75	60	60-65	55
October	70-75	65	65-70	60	60-65	55
November	65-70	60	60-65	55	55-60	50
December	65-70	60	60-65	55	50-55	45

Degrees Fahrenheit. The higher day temperature should be obtained by sun-heat when possible.

Further remarks on this and other details will be found under the headings of the different genera, but it will be better now to state in general terms that during the season of active growth any reasonably high temperature by sun-heat, secured by keeping the house tolerably close and well shaded, greatly benefits the plants. This is specially noticeable where batches of Dendrobium nobile, D. Wardianum, and other deciduous Dendrobiums are grown. Those who grow them best allow the house containing the plants to become very warm; they remove the shading early in the afternoon in order to let the plants get the longest duration of light possible, and they keep the house very moist until the evening.