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Nature and Habits of Orchids. 



plants, it was many years before any of these plants were successfully cul- 

 tivated in England. A few were barely kept alive, but never flowered 

 satisfactorily ; and their successful culture was considered impossible. 

 Within the last forty years, however, their true nature has been understood, 

 until at the present day they are cultivated with success, and bloom with 

 a luxuriance equal to that of their native haunts. 



Edward C. Herbert. 



DENDROBIUM MACROPHYLLUM. 



