102 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
the highest and biggest trees, and these must be 
cut down with axes. Below are all shrubs, full of 
climbers and lianas about a finger thick. Every 
step must be cut to advance, and the ground 
cleared below the high trees in order to spy the 
branches. It is a very difficult job. Nature has 
well protected this Cattleya. . . Nobody can like 
this kind of work.” 
The poor man ends abruptly, “I will write when 
I can—the mosquitos don’t leave me a moment.” 
