PREFACE. 



CooL-GROWiXG Orchids have a great future before them. 

 Many of them may be grown to perfection with the same 

 trouble and expense that are required to grow a Heath or 

 an Azalea. The house in which they will succeed best 

 should be one whose climate resembles that of a genial 

 promenade rather than a vapour bath — an atmosphere 

 peculiar to the East Indian House. 



We have yet to import some fine additions to the group 

 of cool Orchids generally, for many of the best of the 

 Masdevallias, Cypripediums, and Odontoglossums yet linger 

 unseen in their native habitats. Who shall say what 

 novelties will be brought to light when the western slopes 

 of the Andes or the mountains to the north of India have 

 been thoroughly explored by collectors ? 



The works of Bateman, Warner, Anderson, Williams, and 

 others having created a love for Orchids, we offer this 

 little hand-book as an easy and simple guide to the general 

 cultivation of such as will luxuriate freely in a cool or 

 intermediate temperature. The frontispiece here figured 

 was originally published in the first volume of the Journal 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. 



January lut, 1874. 



