30 orchid-gkower's manual. 



We have found this out by reason of want of space in our 

 Orchid houses compelHng us to place certain plants in houses 

 having a different temperature, and in which it has turned 

 out that they have succeeded far better, made better growths, 

 and bloomed more freely. When we find they succeed in 

 this way, we keep them under these conditions, treating them 

 otherwise according to their especial wants. It must be the 

 same with all plant growers. If success is to be obtained, the 

 requirements of the plants to be dealt with must be studied, 

 and the cultivator should never be satisfied until the requisite 

 point for the particular plant to be dealt with has been gained. 

 Always take notes of any successes which have been attained, 

 and never think because you have been successful that the 

 plants will do by themselves and require no further care or 

 study to keep them up to the same standard of health. 

 Some persons seem to think that if they have grown their 

 plants well once they can do so again without further trouble, 

 but this is a great mistake ; the same forethought and atten- 

 tion must be given as before ; and we find that there is 

 always something to be learnt by even the most successful 

 of Orchid growers. 



One thing we have always endeavoured to avoid, and that 

 is following the advice of different cultivators ; no doubt 

 there is something to be learnt from all by all, but the 

 advice should be cautiously taken. We have seen growers 

 rush into new methods of treatment at once without studying 

 their own appliances, their locality, and their surroundings, 

 and the result has often proved to be failure. Even when one 

 hears of new ideas which are to result in the accomplishment 

 of some extraordinary success, it often happens that before 

 the task is finished the failure is complete. The reason of 

 this failure is hard to tell ; they have overdone the matter, 

 or have not kept up the treatment once practised, or there 



