Mr. Woolford, gardener at Downside, grows this species with the QO. Rossii 
section in the cool Odontoglot house. “ We find that it does well in sm 
or pans suspended near the glass, which induces the plants to grow and bloom 
freely. The material we find to suit it best is peat and sphagnum moss, similar 
to that used for O, Rossii and other small growing congeners. They will thrive 
on blocks, but grown in this way they require more attention as regards moisture. 
It is, however, a more natural mode of cultivation, as, in their native country, 
they are found growing on the stems and branches of | trees. O. Rossii is found 
in large masses and in great abundance, and in some parts the O. aspersum is 
found with it, but very sparingly, or we should receive more of it. . A good many 
natural hybrids are met with, but still few in comparison to the number of plants 
imported. Hybrids, even in this country, are not very numerous, as many of the 
seeds sown prove to be imperfect. Some of these plants are easily increased, ag 
they admit of being divided, and thrive well after the operation. 
all baskets 
. OrcHmD Hasrrats.—Man 
, y of these beautiful plants grow in countries where few 
white men dare to venture. 
From these places the natives procure them for our 
collectors at a trifling cost; the great expense incurred in getting them home is 
attributable to travelling. There are places to which our collectors can go and procure 
them for themselves, and these are the places from whence we get our large supplies, 
and whence they are sent home by thousands, and so can often be bought at a cheap 
rate. Some of our friends seem to think we shall exhaust the supply of Orchids 
in their native countries. There is no doubt we have thinned them in some parts, 
but the immense tracts of country whereon no collector has set foot, will still 
yield a supply. They luxuriate where our Creator has placed them, and_ they 
increase and multip 
Their wants are provided for in the climate and circumstances that surround them. 
Nature supplies all their requirements, namely, the warmth, the rains, and the dews. 
If these wants were not provided for, the plants would cease to exist, but these 
being supplied naturally we shall always have Orchids flourishing and_ increasing, for 
they drop their seeds when ripe, and these fall in places where they get nourish- 
ment, according to the various seasons. The numbers that are brought home at the 
present time are extraordinary—truly enough for the million—but we have only 
a me to procure them in such quantities within the last ten or fifteen year’. 
—B. 8. W. 
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