16 Hints on the Cultivation and Treatment 



After trees have been transplanted, they will require attention 

 to see that they are not preyed on by insects, that they do not 

 get loose, and are kept in proper form by a judicious pruning; 

 which ought to be performed annually, when the sap is in full 

 motion. 



If proper pains have been bestowed on making the soil suita- 

 ble, and if the trees have not been transplanted in a hurry^ should 

 you not have the satisfaction of seeing them flourish, you will 

 have no cause of self-reproach. F T\r T? 



Dedham, Dec, 1837. 



[The above most excellent hints are from the pen of an ama- 

 teur well versed in the cultivation of fruit trees. The careless 

 manner in which the operation of planting trees is performed, is the 

 great source of most of the complaints which are so often made 

 about their future success. Let the above remarks be treasured 

 up by all who are about planting fruit trees of any kind. — Ed.\ 



Art. V. Hints on the Cultivation and Treatment of several 

 Genera of the Orchiddcece. By W. D. Brackenridge, 

 Head Gardener in R. Buist's Exotic Nursery, Philadelphia. 



Among the various tribes of plants which compose the vegeta- 

 ble kingdom, there are, perhaps, none more interesting, more nu- 

 merous, or distributed so generally over the surface of the globe, 

 as the family of Orchidaceae. The fantastic forms of many of 

 the tropical kinds, with the exquisite delicacy of their droop- 

 ing racemes — the gorgeous rich colors of their flowers, of al- 

 most every tint and hue, — renders them undoubtedly one of the 

 greatest ornaments of the stove. 



It therefore has occurred to me, as a taste for rare and 

 interesting plants appears to be fast gaining ground in many of 

 our States, that, for the assistance of those who may possess a 

 collection of Orchidaceaj, a few general hints, founded on prac- 

 tice, on the most eligible method of managing them, might prove 

 acceptable to many. Confining my observations to the Epiphyti- 

 cal (not Parasitical, as they are sometimes called,) kinds, which 

 are, with a few exceptions, confined to tropical regions, and 

 generally found growing on the trunks and branches of trees, in 



