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after flowering. The next species to be figured was 

 Epidendron ciliare, which flowered in February 1799, at 

 Mr. Whitley's, Old Brompton, where it was grown in 

 loam and peat, and also plunged in the tan-pit, with the 

 natural consequence that, as stated in the Magazine, it 

 never assumed a fine healthy appearance. In 1802 the 

 same periodical, speaking of another Jamaica orchid, 

 said that since Miller's time many species had been 

 brought to flower in great perfe6lion ; they had figured 

 five, and had drawings of several others. 



Thus a commencement was made with plants common 

 to Jamaica and Guiana, and from that time increased 

 interest was taken in their cultivation, although the 

 proper mode of treating epiphytes yet remained to be 

 discovered. Until about the year 1830, nothing certain 

 could be formulated, and even then opinions differed. 

 Dr. LiNDLEY, writing in that year, said that 22 or 23 

 species were brought to Kew in the last decade of the 

 previous century and about 14 added up to the year 1813, 

 after which new plants were continually being introduced 

 until the number had then reachedabouttwohundred. Mr* 

 William Cattley of Barnet, an amateur, whose name is 

 commemorated in the genus Cattleya, was one of the 

 first to take an interest in orchids, and Messrs. LODDIGES 

 of Hackney cultivated them for sale. 



About this time (1830) a gentleman named John 

 Henry Lance, then living in Surinam, took a great in- 

 terest in orchids, and sent a number to Messrs. LODDIGES. 

 Among the first of these was the swan orchid (Cycnoches 

 Loddigesii) which was described as a beautiful and extra- 

 ordinary plant. This, as may be seen, was named after 

 the nurserymen, but the colle6tor's own name was given 



