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green flash upon their prey. Naturally, therefore, 
they do not catch thrips or mealy-bug or aphis ; 
these are too small game for the midnight sports- 
man. Wood-lice,centipedes, above all, cockroaches, 
those hideous and deadly foes of the orchid, are 
their victims. All who can keep them safe should 
have green frogs by the score in every house which 
they do not fumigate. 
I have come to the orchids at last. It follows, 
indeed, almost of necessity that a man who has 
travelled much, an enthusiast in horticulture, 
should drift into that branch as years advance. 
Modesty would be out of place here. I have 
had successes, and if it please Heaven, I shall win 
more. But orchid culture is not to be dealt with 
at the end of an article. 
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IN the days of my apprenticeship I put up a big 
ereenhouse: unable to manage plants in the open- 
air, I expected to succeed with them under un- 
natural conditions! These memories are strung 
together with the hope of encouraging a forlorn 
and desperate amateur here or there ; and surely 
