484 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Mar 21, 1894, 
the present day—those I of course mean, in which. East | | But these Mexican and Peruvian plants are aiy of the town to find room for two or three Ii 
Indian Orchids are grown Orchids ; rchid rss: which a enter perfectly, in the Space 
In this way perfect success for a time seemed to | sede th je Mexican and eiae plants must des one would look to find nothing but dust: bing 
crown our offer g. ucceed under hot etr pe and coal-holes. Nay, there are yet other and even 
— -— so hs ong as our supply of new plants| I stil not waste your tim Pii ng to explain mas er facilities, € Mr. sb has kept Lycaste 
d fro the sultry islands of the East | the fallacy of such reasoning, I pd to show es how Skinneri some years in a drawing-room, where it stiil 
Todi. "Rtekipoligi or de ot coasts of the South | by little and little our invetera and flourishes, and Major Trevor Clarke has 
eric an continent, all we well. So o soon however gave may. wodeeded in flowering Odontoglossum grande in in the 
It was, I believe, on the Continent that the first pat = Biers ese, however, are exceptional cases, ang 
re eiim to the higher regions of the interior, then dedit. 'move was taken in the direction Ag cool | for the majority even of cool probis no doubt a 
it t experienced our firs phage eiii g Acre to some exten by the | special eceptale must be provide 
ith a pec uel which it is there esci And now that we have over the difficulties 
dolls e ia At ced it was in the collection of | which so quide t the cultiv: beg "of a toee hall tifa 
for d e: egeo trie always an enthusiast in eve ry- M. Linden Mesi that the earliest triumphs of s section ofa most beau Prom we may reasonably 
hin natural history—was riui to | new system were achieved, it was in his hou wish to inquire to whi t the importation of 
hate: established Braai and thanks to his energy and | that many of the most beautifa Depa figured living plants may be edis ir l O our treasures, 
liberality, we eager received 2 the fori of living | in “ Pescatorea,’* flowered for Am and here beyond all doubt there is is a splendid prospect 
plants abundant evidence of the richness of the ourselves Messrs s. Jackson, of kis Kin sinn n Nurs | before us! The illustrious Humboldt, whom I had 
Orchideous Flora ot. that beautiful country, which I credit of having first «doped th the pleasure of meeting at Berlin in the year 1835 
had then made his adopted Let It happened ind y n looking through the old ubere shee directed my attention to the beauty and pro. 
that the Guatemala plants were of a med character of the Bota bred poem ine I am astonished to find | fusion of the Orchids of equatorial America, Itis of 
some—from the coast— delighting in a good amount | how many N. G Granada Orchidsare mentioned ashaving|these that he himself speaks in one of hi 
of heat, while others—from the dixi or mede "yer: in their establishment. Here, indeed, the|remarking that *although such plants are scattered 
as they are called— were natu rally exposed to a tem- | débris of NC cewicz’s sales found refuge for : oe e, | through every part of the torrid zone, from the level 
not a whit higher than that of our ordinary but when e Ki ingston collection of Orchi 1 ght of 10,000 or 11,000 feet, yet it 
greenhouses. But, however tb s ie ^um in the number of species, the 
natural habitats, they were all—on their arrival in por treatment, under which they} perished ar colouring of their flowers, delicious rs rich 
England— indiscriminately huddled into the same | course! The next rational move was made by Messrs, | foliage, ait brilliant flowers, none can be red to 
stove, where i p well, and we | Veitch, at whose nursery in the King's Road I first | those that inhabit the Andes of Mexica, New! Gra 
were but too ready to ascribe the loss of the seiner saw the cool system at work, and great was my SAN 0, an Ta where the shade is moist and the 
eir set of i 
e circumstance o such e. g. 
tractable things that did not even so much ‘a Odontoglossum grande, in the most M ip health, | elevation of between 4800 and 6600 feet, being from 
know when they were well off. But eed difficulty | which I had rebas k before beheld except in nn and | 64° to 69°.” To the same effect may be quoted the 
of which we had now the first mild indications, began = state. This may E sh been so rg M i ti fü tl * Flora Peruviana,” who 
to make itself more —— felt as the d Orchid- | yea ago. Mr. Rucker and Mr. Day "follow. edi in the assert that upwards of a thousand species might be 
producing countries be o be more and di and succeeded perfectly even jn their | found in,Tarma, Huanoco and Xauxa alone ! 
Mera wig collectors. Mr. "Barker Lyc from Mies attempts ; "while = fost t to move, to his ec aoa In fach, these | most beauti ful of plants, like those 
Mex almost evaporated in the course of a few spoken, was Mr. man himself, w ,* seem to 
is, nier a still more wholesale destruction awaited pri a to condone his pr folly by teaching y $i in 4 cling wi a marvellou partiality to ‘the vast Andean 
the dis -— eries at bens rscewicz in New xem and | few Lapin what it cost him ii 5 c dá Mexico to 
Peru. Indeed, uch ill odour at lus e the | lear the con nfine Thes are—geolo- 
fth lori edere diae su spea het ey recent Dile; the c Orchids, there- 
Odon onie sa which, if we sd had them ali lve, , might of e treatinent may be ge s as qois it à that inhabit them must likewise be comparati tivel 
now ds weighed —carat for ca recent; indeed, no fossil Orchid has ever been 
gem n Mr. Ha ncock’s shop, Y were » sold at St : itl will naturally l under the | covered, d Ferns, with which in these days 
purck heads of—1, House; 2, Te empe erature; 3, Sapa: | Orchids are inv: rar” associated, have been found in 
t€ at a stall in Covent Garden Mana: uat un re q the first, i.e., is House, I | countless myriads i in t e palæozoic strata. Nor eed 
hi | we be surprise 
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collectors, words of warning pen of f back cell es appropriated to sheds, may place in the progra! of c assigned to our 
3 it was not until Dr, | be covered with lean-to es (glazed with Hartley’s | which are of Titile, n um ” Eu utility to 
took the matter in hand—indeed scarcely even | rough^plate), and then, two or three yards of hot-water | man, A have nothing but their beauty to comm 
i—that any serious impression was made upon rhe | piping being introduced, your cool Orchid-house is at | them to his notice. They were not thereto led 
once complete.+ Next, as regards Temperature. This | into being until he who alone could appreciate their 
80 periederrit: à as that. adduced i in the : Orchidaceze [should be as equable T cay er will juu varied charms was about to appear upon the scene. 
Lindeniauz,"* in behalf atment | that is to say, during in winter rit ta ld| In the earlier part of this lecture I had occasion to 
for Orchids from cool localities, should have failed to | not fall below 60°, ie pe a daytime mmer | notice the ignorance and indifference in respec 
command assent. In the pamphlet referred to Dr, | the less s it rises above 70° the better. In the ni Night of | Orchids that prevailed in Europe almost up to the 
Lindley remarks: “It is evident indeed that these f and even | very close of the 18th century. This indifference how- 
Columbian species have no affection for a high tem- | if it sink below 50° no harm will be dons astly, as | ever did not extend to the settlers in the New World, 
perature, and that many prefer a low one. No fewer | regards the Gen eral Management. "Under “his for scarcely had the Spaniards discov America 
than 13 occur between 10,000 and Ry 000 feet, where, | head which sd an indispensable con. | than the wondrous beauty of the Orchids attracted 
Humboldt tells us, it is as col the mean of the | dition of success, ete whi ch m st be kept up more or | their attention, and the names by which many of 
onth of March near Paris; 19 ess, vinter, m continually damping | plants are still known, e. g., Flor de Muertos, Flor de 
of May in the same city ; while Min mean temperature d the shelves On the latter, wet Moss | Corpus, Flor de los Santos, & — attest the devotional 
of the zone beo dee 5000 and hee feet, where c should bo e kept constantly strewn, the evaporation from | uses to which many of the t beautiful were, and 
largest proportion exists, is only that of Paris - being highly ben - a Insects, giving irpo | still are applied. sedis * altar of a Roman 
August, recording to the same bre di ockroa us raat th scale, &c., must be rigidly | Catholic church in an Orchid a can is the point to 
Thad myse an early period, experienced what [eciuded p -— in mek, otherwise Ree is not to | which a plant collector should first direct 
should have een a vary mel. Yoon as to the power | P9, thou The fumes of tobacco, even to the and it was yo y in this yd that Lycas 
= certain Orchids to endure cold inabili the ly endure, | and many of our present favourites were ñ 
endure heat. It was, I think, in and their inability er ost injuri to the ds longos and other cool d! The same feeling in regard to Orchids pU 
kien winter of 1837-38 that I received a box of | Orchids, pecia “their leaves to fa be noticed in the curious work of ernandez e! ri 
Orchids from Oaxaca, and which arriving at that| . The plants themselves may be dio wn—Aaccording to | “ “Nat “a History of New Spain” age em early 
season, and after an bis gs for a night and a day on | circumstances—either on blocks of wood or in pots, | the 17th meia from which I hav 
the top ofa coach, I quite P o up as as 1 UU AME the Odontoglossa always preferring the latter, while | tispiece (this was exhibited on a "gre 
thom im £5, | most of the Epidendra are safest on the former. When err wherein ‘all the most Mem pee 
stove, under the impression that a fi o | pots are used, they should be filled up to at least two- | whether ani or Merge > the ¢ 
ET speedily be neni en iun Agree Det thirds of their depth, with large broken potsherds (so | grouped, with a disregard to ortion and pu 
death had as to admit dite enter and water to escape freely), | tive that might have done honour " the Chin i 
$ ifa for for the residue, in which the roots of the plant Here areal Bon ost remarkable beasts and birds 
Take 
owering plants. Of the la M. jer oni PEE 
y iy [c potsherds two parts; of Ee A are given, but tbe EPI i of honour n 
r TEM nsidered my plants secure ; Sphagnum one part; of fi en peat wel ae ed y one other ^ 
but when the severity of winte hat tuer d | that the earthy portion may fall wah one m then | tigrina (the Flos je of Bimani, ao 
higher temperature began to prevail, then for the int mix the whole _ together and set you r plan , there on, ws right by Tigridia rere and O the left e 
time they seemed to pine, and in less than a twelve- taking second Orchid, in which we at once red) recognise 
month nearly all had disappeared. Another picia pot. In this way water which, during summer espe- the flor de co rpus or Lælia grandi ie us hec e 
pointing in the same direction might have been drawn cially, may be freely given, will pass readily away, | plan ead ti altitude 
from a plant of Oncidium deltoideum, a without any risk of causing the roots to damp off or oth s of equal interest remain to introduc a. ie. 
8 e 
speci which after having nearl m decay.f ‘The pots moreover in whi ich the plants grow | Josse articular attention todrwingsef enin 
g peared plants g p 
ear 
altogether, was at length accidentally met with should stand on other pots (inverted), reti in a erubescens, E. UR erici Gulielmi &c., a8 spe 
Liverpool, flowering finely in E reoni Arty But Edi saucer of water, both for the sake of humi d of of desire; he also exhibited a ode, by the nuns of 
this hint, broad as it was, met with no attention, and | security from woodlice. | San a in Gate temala, of E. midophont n, 
the ar. A aes ane proved itself a species of | Nor let it be su ipposed that cool Orchid houses are | which plants have been (recently oy already 
at once transferred from the green Meanwhile the search goes bravely on, for uest of 
houso, w S had “flourished, ex stove, Shere it towns. So far from s they might easily be fixed (in m are half a dozen or more collectors in queg pee 
ied. At this distance of time it seems all but|l?9ut of x ondon houses) to the back of the lap cool Orchids in the countries to which I hav? — 
Mibi to u cess such SN but I believe | 28 and en from th e landing on the stairs, * Mr. Gould informs me that two-thirds of the ig, 
reaoning is A at all Qu have been | they might i placed in the backyard. In this wy species of humming-birds inhabit the Mexican, New Gi, 
into form of a syllogism, th Dr. Canty, of Liverpool, bas contrived im the very | Peigi ot uns QUI i2 10,00 fot? precisely De mne i 
» el 0 m o A > pre $ 
East and West Indian Orchide suocced under |," Puctloren lemogrephir de OrcWdés, par J. Linden, | most prole in Ordbida! In die. Cos aplemdid werk aah 
n Ea ERE x eene — ——————— fluttering 
ion of suc ouse see Bateman’s | or sucking honey from various Urchids. 
: * Guide to Cool Orchid G " Reeve & Co. T bids are res 
Or notes upon a collection of . 1 For full details of Orchid f alti vation Mar: PM are m E yw a maa O te irn eae a 
Mr. me By | alike applicable to hot we Je 
plants [y to cool, see Mr, William: hould far to set the hardes! 
Evans, 1846. ! Orchid Grower's Manual, London, 1862. tene dts thas aiy botanist has yet JAINA Ea 
