CONTENTS. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



GARDEN. 



INTRODUCTIOX. 



Sect. I. Geographical Distribution 

 Part I. Europe 

 Part IL Asia 

 Part III. Africa . . 

 Part IV. America 

 II Benefit of Two or more Houses 



III. On Heat and Moisture 



IV. On Light ; the effect it has upon Plants 

 V. On the construction of Houses 



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On the cultivation of the following Genera: 



^Erides, Saccolabium, Vanda, Sarcanthus, 



Camarotis, and Cleisostoma 

 The Genera Acanthophippium,Govenia, Phajus, 



Calanthe, Bletia, Pesomeria, and Sarcochilus 

 The Genera Acropera, Cinhaea, and Gongora 

 The Genera Pholidota, Batemannia, Bifrenaria, 



Anguloa, Maxillaria and its recent divisions 



Lycaste, Paphinia, and Scuticaria 

 The Genus Anoectochilus . . 

 The Genera Broughtonia, Aganisia, Comparet- 



tia, and Angraecum 

 The Genera Aporum,Cirrhopetalum, Bolbophyl- 



lum, Sophronites, and Leptotes . . 

 The Genera Aspasia, Eria, Decrypta, Brassa- 



vola, Trigonidium, and Camaridium 

 The Genera Brassia, Oncidium, Cyrtochilum, 



Miltonia, and Odontoglossum 

 The Genus Cattleya 

 The Genus Schoinburgkia . . 



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