will be required to keep the house up to the correct temperature, at the same 
time giving a little air, but avoiding cold draughts. 
The Odontoglots are among the most accommodating of Orchids, as they are 
free-growing, and most of them free-blooming subjects. By having a stock of plants, 
a succession of flowers may be kept up all the year round in the case of such 
kinds as Odontoglossum Alexandre, O. Pescatorei, and others. There are some 
amateurs who are not satisfied unless they possess some thousands of plants of the 
two species just named, and they argue correctly, that by obtaining so many they 
have the opportunity of selecting the good kinds for permanent cultivation, and of 
doing away with the’ bad ones, or else of using them for ordinary decorative 
purposes. The good varieties take up no more room than the indifferent ones, and 
both are valuable and beautiful in their respective departments. 
Orcutps at THE Kiins, Farxirx, N.B., the seat of John Gair, Esq.—A short 
time since we paid a visit to this place, and we were well repaid for our journey, 
We always maintain that there is something to be learnt in every place, and we 
found it so here. Thus we often hear it remarked that Orchids and stove plants 
cannot be grown together, but we found in this collection that many stove plants 
were grown in the centre bed, while Orchids were suspended from the roof, the 
side tables also being full of Orchids. In this case the house was a large span- 
roofed one, and contained many kinds of Orchids, coming from countries various and 
diverse. The plants, consisting of many hundreds, were all grown together, and 
there was not one in bad _ condition among them. We propose to mention the 
different genera which have been cultivated in this house for several successive 
years, since we have been fortunate enough to be able to bear testimony to the — 
progress they have made. On entering the house one’s attention is at once arrested 
by some finely grown specimens of Bollea, Huntleya, and Batemannia, all in luxuriant 
health. Next came Lelia purpurata, L. elegans, L. elegans prasiata, and others, all 
in the best possible condition, and flowering freely. There was also standing on the 
same table a well-grown collection of Cypripediums, consisting of all the choicest and 
best kinds, which were growing splendidly. Mr. Fairbairn appears to use a great deal 
of water, more than we do, for we were informed by him that he syringed them 
every day in summer, and kept them moist in winter, though at that season he does 
not syringe them so much. By the side of these were many fine plants of Dendro- 
hiums, and other good Orchids. At the end, and on the other side of the house, there 
was a good collection of East Indian Orchids—Aérides, Saccolabiums, Angracuims, 
Vandas, &c., all doing well. Then came a fine lot of Cattleyas, such as C. Triant, 
C. Mendel, C. gigas, C. Warnerii, C. Mossie, and others, all in excellent health- 
The centre table was furnished with many fine Orchids mixed with foliage plants, 
and from the roof were suspended such genera as Phalenopsis and Dendrobium, making 
_ fine growths, and enjoying the moisture from the stove plants below.—B. 8. W. 
