Every Botanist and Cultivator is aware of the extensive 
“collections of Orcuipem and Cacrezx possessed by Mr. 
Harris of Kingsbury, and that they are under the care of 
one of the ablest and most scientific gardeners of this coun- 
try, Mr. D. Beaton. It is to Mr. Beaton I am indebted for 
the following very valuable information respecting the cul- 
tivation of some of the species of this Genus, and of other 
Orcuipe, which he received last year from the high moun- 
tainous districts of Mistica alta in Mexico, where they were 
gathered by M. Gateormr, at an elevation of from seven 
thousand five hundred to nine thousand feet above the level 
of the sea :—and concerning which he writes, that “ they 
may be cultivated in the greenhouse.” 
“A large importation of these plants,” Mr. Beaton further 
observes, “ arrived at Kingsbury at the close of last Septem- 
ber, an awkward time of the season to begin to grow plants, 
whose natural winter was fast approaching. I laid them on 
shelves in the seed-room, with a thin layer of damp moss 
under them. By the middle of December, they imbibed 
moisture sufficiently to swell their bulbs to the natural size ; 
but not wishing to risk them all in that cold place during 
winter, I removed the strongest sorts to the colder end of the 
Orchideous house, and the more tender, to a cool, dry place 
in the Cactus house, reserving some of éach kind (to be 
wholly wintered in the seed-room), to the amount of about 
a dozen species, among which were Lzuia autumnalis, 
L. albida, L. furfuracea, Carrirya citrina, and others, of 
similar habits, but which were strangers to me. The moss 
was kept a little moist all the winter ; and the temperature 
of the room was from 35° to 45°. Those did far better in 
the seed room than those of the same species put into heat 
in December. Carrieya citrina appeared to like this treat- 
ment better than the rest. A few of the new species began 
to dwindle away about the middle of January under this 
treatment, the place being too cold for them; but if I had 
kept them in the same dry state in which I received them, 
no cold above the freezing point would have injured them 
all the winter. 
“« When they made the first effort to grow in March and 
April, I removed them into a brick heat ; and now they have 
the advance of those which were in heat during the winter ; 
and, as soon as their leaves are fully formed, I shall remove 
em to ripen their growth to the warmest end of the 
greenhouse, 
“ After making-a season’s growth in this country I would 
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