1 8 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



species of plant or tree. It is credible. In the memoir 

 published by the Gardeners' Chronicle, which was brief of 

 necessity, fourscore were enumerated, with the addition, here, 

 of ' many others,' there, of ' etc' Roezl was no specialist. 

 A wise regard for his own interest confined him almost to 

 orchids in the later years. But in his catalogue of achieve- 

 ments I find new lilies, nt'N conifers, fuchsias, agaves, cacti, 

 begonias, saxifrage, dahlias, convolvuli, tropaeolums, tac- 

 sonias — a multitude, in fact, beyond reckoning. In one 

 expedition he sent eight tons of orchids to Europe ; in 

 another ten tons of cacti, agaves, dion, and orchids ! The 

 record of his travels is startling ; and it must be observed 

 that Roezl's first aim always was to escape from the beaten 

 track. His journeyings were explorations. Many an Indian 

 tribe never saw a white man before, and some, perhaps, have 

 never seen one since. Mexico was his first hunting-ground, 

 and thither he returned more than once ; Cuba the second. 

 Thence he was drawn to the Rocky Mountains, California, and 

 Sierra Nevada. Then in succession he visited Panama, New 

 Granada, Sierra Nevada again, California again, Washington 

 Territory, Panama again, Bonaventura, the Cauca valley, 

 Antioquia, Northern Peru, crossed the Andes, returned to 

 Bonaventura, and thence to Europe. Starting again he 

 searched Colorado Territory, New Mexico, California, the 

 Sierra Madre ; worked his way to Caracas, thence through 

 Venezuela, crossed to Cuba, to Vera Cruz, explored the 

 state of Oajaca in Mexico, sailed to Lima, crossed the 

 Andes again to Tarma and Changamaga, back into Southern 

 Peru, wandered as far as the Lake of Titicaca, searched 

 Bolivia, traversed the Snowy Mountains to Yungas, back 

 to Lima and Arica, crossed the Andes a third time, visited 

 Ecuador, and made his way back to the valley of the Cauca. 

 How many thousand miles of journeying this chronicle re- 

 presents is a problem for laborious youth. And the botanist 



