76 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
prediction occurred to many of his acquaintance, I 
have heard ; but Mr. Sander had a living faith in 
his old friend’s sagacity. Forthwith he despatched 
a collector to the spot which Roezl had named— 
but not visited—and found the treasure. The 
legends of orchidology will be gathered one day, 
perhaps; and if the editor be competent, his 
volume should be almost as interesting to the 
public as to the cognoscenti. 
I have been speaking hitherto of Colombian 
Odontoglossums, which are reckoned among the 
hardiest of their class. Along with them, in the 
same temperature, grow thecool Masdevallias, which 
probably are the most difficult of all to transport. 
There was once a grand consignment of Masde- 
vallia Schlimiz, which Mr. Roez! despatched on his 
own account. It contained twenty-seven thousand 
plants of this species, representing at that time a 
fortune. Mr. Roezl was the luckiest and most 
experienced of collectors, and he took special 
pains with this unique shipment. Among twenty- 
seven thousand two bits survived when the cases 
were opened; the agent hurried them off to 
Stevens’s auction-rooms, and sold them forthwith 
at forty guineaseach. But I must stick to Odonto- 
slossums. Speculative as is the business of im- 
porting the northern species, to gather those of 
