18 Jfotices of new and beautiful Plants 



he gently syringed overhead once or twice every eight days in 

 winter, and oftener, as the season advances. The temperature 

 of the house should never be allowed to fall below 60° Fahren- 

 heit scale; a warm humid atmosphere, almost approaching to sat- 

 uration, being what they delight in, and without this no collection 

 can be kept in a vigorous and healthy state. 



As much of the success depends on placing the plants, some 

 requirmg shade and others light, as a general rule I would re- 

 mark, that those with thick, coriaceous or subulate leaves, as On- 

 cidium carthaginense, and O. Cebolleti, Brassavola tuberculata 

 and B. cucuUata, Dendrobium speciosum and D. Barringtoni, 

 will stand sun and light with impunity; others again, as Oncidi- 

 um divaricatum, whose leaves are thin and membraneous, when 

 exposed to the sun become languid and yellow. In the scorch- 

 ing heat of summer I would recommend a little to be given to 

 them all, as it preserves that livid green appearance so pleasing to 

 the eye. The greatest evil the cultivator has to contend with is 

 the millepes, or wood lice. These pests attack and eat the 

 points of the young roots, and when not attended to will soon de- 

 stroy the whole plant. The only way to keep clear of them is 

 to place the plants on hanging shelves, or to suspend the pots, as 

 I before observed, which also leaves more space for other plants 

 beneath. 



Under the above treatment we have had this autumn the satis- 

 faction of flowering some handsome and highly interesting species, 

 which, with the old routine of management, would have remained 

 in a weak, sickly state, and ultimately been turned out as cum- 

 berers. Should these few hasty remarks meet your approbation, 

 on some future occasion I may offer some hints on the treatment 

 of the terrestrial kinds. W. D. Brackenridge. 



Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1837. 



Art. VI. J^otices of new and beautiful Plants figured in the 

 London Floricultural and Botanical JMagazines; icith some 

 Account of those which it would be desirable to introduce into 

 our Gardens. 



Edwards^s Bota^iical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and 

 Shrubbery. Each number containing eight figures of Plants 

 and Shrubs, In monthly numbers; 4s. colored, 3s. plain. Ed- 



