present may be judged of from our diminished figure at the 

 back of the single branch drawn of its natural size. 



Many of the Orchideous epiphytes are found to succeed 

 best if tied to short pieces of the branches of trees with 



gged bark 



succeed better upon that plan than the 



different species of Oncidium; and provided so large a 

 plant as this, with its long heavy leaves, can be made fast 

 to a> branch, we have no doubt it will also be found to like 

 that kind of treatment. The specimen, however, from which 



drawing was taken had been grown in a pot in decayed 



getable mould 

 It 



of most of the tropical parts of America 



from the eastern to the western shores 



J. L. 





