OS0HID3 FOR THE GREENHOUSE, &C. 313 



lip two inckes across, white, striped witli pink. Native of 

 Demerara. 



ORCHIDS FOR THE GREENHOUSE, COLD FRAME, 



OR PIT. 



HIS subject was first introduced to these pages m 

 the third edition, and I am glad to find the 

 remarks then made have induced many to turn 

 their attention to these beautiful plants, for there are many 

 Orchids, which yield most exquisite flowers, that will thrive 

 entirely without artificial heat. Orchid growers too often 

 set on one side all those which do not succeed under 

 artificial heat. My object in introducing the subject is to 

 bring into notice some of those beautiful terrestrial plants 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, North America, the South 

 of Europe, and Australia, w^hich at present are only seen at 

 rare intervals, but which when seen are always admired. It 

 also opens a field for many not possessing the advantages of 

 an East Indian and Mexican Oxchid house, or, indeed, any 

 plant house, to commence the study of this beautiful class. 

 The terrestrial species, from the Cape and other places, which 

 do not, as a rule, produce large flowers, are yet most 

 exquisitely coloured, and most fantastic in shape. We have, 

 however, fiome fine things to introduce from the Cape yet. 

 Mr. Plant, in one of his journeys in South Africa, in describing 

 some of the rarities he met with, says: — "The Terrestrial 

 Orchids are numerous and very beautiful. In my opinion, 

 there are many here but little inferior to the most showy of 

 the epiphytous kinds. Fancy a plant with the general 

 character of an Oplirys, producing a spike of bloom as large 

 and as thickly set as those of Saccolahium (juttatum, often, 



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