NOTES UPON EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM. 851 
of about £35 have supplied me with an orchid-house that has already 
yielded me more enjoyment than I ever derived from houses of ten times 
Lad 
Lycastes, &с., &c., have now been half a year in this house, and have 
charmed me by the progress they have made, and which is quite as striking 
in a variety of other examples as in the case of the Epidendrum vitellinum, 
that I have now selected for exhibition. I shall, however, reserve my 
remarks on other species for a future occasion, and shall in the mean time 
strongly urge upon the Fellows of the Horticultural Society, and indeed upon 
horticulturists generally, the expediency of constructing small cool-houses, 
and of thus judging for themselves as to the fund of interest and pleasure 
that is at length opened to us in the cool treatment of orchids from cool 
localities. : 
I ought, perhaps, to add that a cool orchid-house should always face 
the north. It must be kept damp as well as cool, partieularly during the 
summer months, and while the sun is vertical ought to be shaded with 
tiffany for a few hours in the day. The plants may be grown either on logs 
of wood or in pots; many of the Lelias and Epidendrums succeeding 
best upon the former, while the latter are тега perferred by the 
Odontoglossums. Yor these last I employ a mixture composed of broken 
potsherds, fibrous peat, and sphagnum in nearly equal proportions, which 
my gardener, Mr. Sherratt, finds preferable to all others. 
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