<) orchids: how to grow them successfully. 



a purcliase, to consider to what different species of Orchids the 

 house is best adapted; for instance, the degi-ee of heat at command, 

 and the amount of light or shade afforded, must be taken into 

 account, and I will endeavour to explain this fully. I do not 

 recommend the cultivation of Orchids with fruit trees in the same 

 house, although it can be done, and sometimes successfully, by 

 those who fidly understand their requirements, during the vaiious 

 stages of growth, but, unless in very experienced hands, such 

 treatment would most probably end in failure, and I am desirous 

 of bringing about an opposite state of affairs. Many of the most 

 beautiful species of Cool and Intermediate Orchids "v\dll, as before 

 remarked, grow with other plants, provided the conditions of the 

 atmosphere and temperature are suitable. I am aware that many 

 amateurs, especially those living in towns, labour under a difficulty, 

 owing to the limited area of their glass structures, which are 

 sometimes placed in unfavourable positions, although some of these 

 may be^suitable for a restricted class of plants. It is not unusual 

 to see a glass structure resembling (Fig. 1) a lean-to house, 



against the dwelling-house or a garden wall, having an east or 

 west aspect, and where Orchids, requiring the treatment of an 

 intermediate house, can be grown, as well as many stove (warm- 

 house) Orchids. If such a lean-to house has either a north, 

 north-east, or north-west aspect. Cool Orchids will flourish; but it 



