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ium monarchis, in meadows. Ophrys ; and the shelves, b b, are of slate. 

 myodes, in shady forests, particularly ; Parallel with the shelves, and separa- 

 upon chalk. 0. arachnites, in mea- ting them from the narrow part of the 

 dews, also upon limestone. 0. aj3)/era, lake, are beds, c d, raised two feet 

 upon limestone hills. Epipogium : and a half above the level of the floor, 

 gmetini, upon mouldering roots of and each furnished in the middle with 

 trees, in mountainous woods. Spiran-^ a tank, c c, the water of which is heated 

 thes autumnalis, in meadows. Neottia by a turn of pipe passing through it. 

 Nidusavis, •growing upon roots of trees, At the north end, the house is closed 

 in woods. Listera ovata, in damp by a solid wall, covered with bark and 

 places, in common woods. L. cordata, rough projections for ferns and such 

 in mountain meadows and woods, plants, at the other end it opens into 

 Epipactis latifolia, in forests. E. atro- \ what is called the plant house by two 

 rubens, in mountain woods, particu- doors. The heating apparatus consists 

 larly upon limestone. E. viridifiora, in ' of a boiler, b, at the close end of pipes 

 shady places. E. palustris, in mea- running through the water and under 

 dows. Goodyera repens, in fir woods the slate shelves. 



among moss. Cephalanthera rubra, in " The heating apparatus," Mr. 

 shady woods. C. ensifolia, in shady Butcher says, " is found to suit admi- 

 forests. Cypripedium calceolus, in ; rably as regards the temperature, both 



shady woods." — Gard. Chron. 



Stove for Tender Species. — The fol 

 lovying is the plan of a stove for these 



of the house and of the lake and tanks 

 of water. The circulation of heat be- 

 ing continued under water, commu- 



plants erected at Ealing Park, and for nicates sufficient warmth for the double 

 which I am indebted to the Gardener's \ purpose of creating an evaporation 

 Chronicle. : beneficial to the plants, and making 



the water of suitable temperature when 

 applied by syringe or watering pot. 



" We can always command ten de- 

 grees of heat in this house above the 

 temperature of the plant stove, con- 

 nected with and heated by the same 

 apparatus, an arrangement of some 

 importance, as it allows for placing in 

 the plant stove those Orchidaceae which 

 require a lower temperature when in a 

 state of rest. 



" The boiler is formed of cylindrical 

 pipes placed in rows alternately above 

 each other, all heated by one or two 

 fires at pleasure. 



'• From the roof as well as from trees 

 placed in the centre of the lake, we 

 suspend the Orchidacese in baskets ; 

 and on logs of wood on the two large 

 raised pits and vvide shelves around 

 the house, which complete the internal 

 arrangements, we place plants in pots. 

 Those of your readers conversant with 

 floricultural affairs during that period, 

 " The roof consists of three spans, may remember the many prizes which 

 which cover a breadth of something have been awarded to specimens from 

 more than fifty feet, and is supported our collection, and as this fact forbids 

 by columns, c c, to which creepers are > the charge of presumption, I will ex- 

 trained. In the centre is an irregular : plain our mode of treatment by tak- 

 piece of water, a a, called the ' lake,' ing the genus Zygopetalum for an in- 

 surrounded by rock-work edging, stance. 



heated by pipes passing through it , " When the plants are commencing 

 from the boiler b, and containing aqua- I their growth, (generally about the 

 tic plants. The flooring of the house tnonth of October,) a pot of suitable size 



