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already quoted.' Among customers who write to 
him direct are magnates of China and Siam, an 
Indian and a Javanese rajah. Orders are received 
—not unimportant, nor infrequent—from mer- 
chants at Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rio 
de Janeiro, and smaller places, of course. It is 
vastly droll to hear that some of these gentlemen 
import species at a great expense which an 
intelligent coolie could gather for them in any 
quantity within a few furlongs of their go-down ! 
But for the most part they demand foreigners. 
The plants thus distributed will be grown in the 
open air; naturally they will seed; at least, we 
may hope so. Even Angraecum sesquipedale, of 
which I wrote in the preceding chapter, would find 
a moth able to impregnate itin South Brazil. Such 
species as recognize the conditions necessary for 
their existence will establish themselves. It is 
fairly safe to credit that in some future time, not 
distant, Cattleyas may flourish in the jungles of 
India, Dendrobiums on the Amazons, Phalcoe- 
nopsis in the coast lands of Central America. 
Those who wish well to their kind would like to 
hasten that day. 
Mr. Burbidge suggested at the Orchid Con- 
ference that gentlemen who have plantations ina 
1 Vide page 100. 
