THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JANUARY 1st, 1836. 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — On the Culture of Orchideous Plants. 

 By A Country Florist. 



Observing a Query in Vol. III. of the Cabinet, page 116, on 

 the culture of Orchideous Plants, I forward, in compliance there- 

 with, the following observations upon this most interesting tribe 

 of plants. They are the result of a very successful practice with 

 upwards of six hundred plants, for eight years. Many of the 

 kinds requiring a very different mode of treatment from others, 

 I deem it best to give you a portion of my remarks for each 

 successive number of the Fourth Volume of the Cabinet. An 

 article on the whole tribe, would occupy so much room, that it 

 would necessarily exclude other valuable and interesting observa- 

 tions on many other plants. With a view, however, of complying 

 with the wishes of the Querist, I shall confine my remarks to a few 

 kinds for each month. A few general observations, however, must 

 first be given. 



The tribe of plants under notice are peculiarly interesting : the 

 singular form of the flowers, the variation of colour in a single 

 flower, the peculiar mode of growth, and the powerful fragrance of 

 many of them, all combine to give interest to them. In their 

 native country they are not regarded by the natives, and it has been 

 stated by an English gentleman who collected for some time, and 

 to a very great extent, that he only saw one instance of any of the 



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