30 COOL ORCHID GROWING. 



else to tack pieces of coarse tiffany over the openings inside 

 the house. 



These and many more little details will, however, soon 

 .suggest themselves to the mind of the attentive culti- 

 vator, who must be ever ready to counteract any unhealthy 

 symptoms which his plants may show through being subjected 

 to a course of adverse circumstances. The construction of 



Section of a Lean-to Orchid House. 



cool Orchid houses does not call for any great amount of 

 skill ; they may, therefore, be erected under the direction of 

 any intelligent workman who may happen to be about the 

 place, in a few weeks at most, and their first cost will be but 

 a trifle compared with the pleasure the culture of these lovely 

 plants will afford. 



