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of culture in our climate so considerable, that it must al- 

 ways be confined to the rich ; indeed, at the .present time, 

 there are very few choice collections in the United States. 

 We trust, however, to be able to show that the cost of 

 culture may be much reduced ; and every year the plants 

 are becoming more plenty, and consequently cheaper. 



Among those who have done much for Orchid culture, 

 may be mentioned, Pescatore, whose hot-houses at St. 

 Cloud contained one of the richest collections in Eu- 

 rope and whose magnificent plants have been illustrated 

 by the work on Orchids (bearing his name) by Linden, 

 which enriches some of our horticultural and private li- 

 braries. 



In England, the sale collections of Messrs. Low of 

 Clapton, of Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, and Rollinson of 

 Tooting, and of William Bull and B. S. Williams, are 

 most extensive. 



The Orchids of Mexico, the Isthmus, of Colombia, and 

 Brazil, have been chiefly brought into cultivation by the 

 French, while we owe most of the choice productions 

 of the East Indies to the enterprise of English collect- 

 ors. 



The horticultural world owes a debt of gratitude to the 

 enterprise of M. Pinel of Rio Janeiro, and of M. Porte 

 of Bahia, through whom many of the finest Brazilian 

 species have been brought into cultivation ; to M. Linden 

 of Brussels, whose importations of Mexican Orchids 

 have greatly enriched our hot-houses; to Rev. C. S. 

 Parish, whose discoveries of East Indian Orchids have 

 added many new species to our collection ; and to Fred. 

 U. Skinner, who is worthily commemorated by some of 

 the most showy plants. 



