30 ON THE CULTIVATION OF BRITISH OECHIDS. 



species, and may be treated as a common border plant requiring 

 no care ; it may also be cultivated in pots in a mixture of loam 

 and a little peat, and likes a shaded situation all the year. I 

 have grovrn it in pots for years, and occasionally have found self- 

 sown seedlings come up in the adjoining pots : these seedlings 

 appear to come to maturity in the second year. The seedlings 

 of this and others come up in pots containing dwarf bushy plants, 

 whose foliage covers the surface of the pots. 



O. latifolia, L. — is also a common species in wet meadows, 

 different plants exhibiting considerable variety of colour. It 

 succeeds well in a shaded rather damp border. It may be potted 

 in peat mixed witli a little loam, and may be kept out of doors 

 all the year. Seedlings which spring up in other pots have been 

 found to come to maturity the second year. 



O. jiyratnidalis, L. — is a showy, rather late-flowering spe- 

 cies. It has succeeded best in pots : the tubers being small, 

 several may be placed in one pot. It likes loam with a little 

 peat, and plenty of crocks. It should be placed in a cool frame, 

 giving little water during winter. 



O. hircina, Scop. — This is a late-flowering, showy plant ; but, 

 being a very rare species, I never could obtain more than one 

 very small tuber, which was potted in loam, sand, and a little 

 peat, and kept constantly in a frame, where it was preserved for 

 several years, but never attained sufficient strength to flower. 

 From what I then saw of it, I should consider it was not diffi- 

 cult to cultivate. Plants might be obtained from France, where 

 it is said to be more plentiful. 



Gymnadenia conopsea,, R. Br. — is desirable for scent as well 

 as beauty, and will thrive in the open ground for years whei'S 

 the soil is light. When kept in pots, it should be grown in loam, 

 peat, and sand, mixed witli crocks, and placed out of doors all 

 the year. This is also one of those species from which self-sown 

 seedlings are sometimes produced. 



G. albida. Rich. — I never had more than one root of this, which 

 was potted in loam, peat, and sand, with crocks, and constantly 

 kept in a cool frame. It lived several years, but never flowered. 



Aceras anthropophora, R. Br. — should be kept in pots, in 

 loam, peat, and coarse sand, with plenty of crocks. It should be 

 placed in a cool shaded frame throughout the year, and sparingly 

 watered when in a dormant state. 



Habenaria vi7-idis, R. Br. — bears cultivation well in pots 

 placed in a shaded situation. As it grows naturally in light, 

 damp, sandy soil, it should have loam, peat, and coarse sand 

 mixed with plenty of crocks, and, the roots being small, several 

 may be placed in the same pot. I have flowered it successively 

 for several years. 



