850 NOTES UPON EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM. 
tains of Mexico, there are found Dog-roses and strawberries mixed with 
Pepper-worts (Peperomia), and the manita (Cheirostemon platanoides) 
indicates with some accuracy the kind of climate enjoyed by Epidendrum 
vitellinum,” 
Similar advice came from Mr. Skinner, who found the species in Guate- 
mala growing luxuriantly at an elevation where the thermometer ranged 
from 58° to 38°; we cannot therefore wonder that the plant should have 
found itself ill at ease when placed among East Indian orchids that will 
thrive in a temperature nearly twice as high as that which is proper to 
itself, The real marvel is that we should have persisted so long ina 
course of unnatural treatment that—at a great sacrifice of comfort, labour, 
and expense—resulted in a uniform failure from which an adherence to 
the ordinary principles of cultivation would have effectually saved us. 
Something perhaps might be due to the circumstance that, in the infancy 
of orchid-growing, one house was expected to receive in its comprehensive 
embrace all epiphytal orchids whatsoever, no matter whether they came 
from the sultry and pestilential coasts of Africa and the East Indies, ог 
from the mild and pure air of the Mexican and Peruvian Andes. - P 
after every allowance has been made for ci t and conditions which 
however applicable to orchid-growing in its early days have long since ceased 
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