Treatment of Newly-Imported Orchids. 



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TREATMENT OF NEWLY-IMPORTED ORCHIDS. 



As soon as the plants are unpacked from the cases, they should be 

 placed in a shady part of the orchid-house ; not at once in great heat, but 

 where the temperature is moderately warm, and where they will not be 

 '.■xposed to draughts of air ; for, having been so long confined in close cases, 

 any immediate exposure to atmospheric changes would prove injurious. 



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It is a good plan to cover them with an awning, in order to guard against 

 too much light. 



.t is not best to unpack the cases in the orchid-house : for, almost always, 

 cockroaches will have found their way into the cases ; and these, once domes- 

 ticated in an orchid-house, are with difficulty extirpated. Every portion of 



