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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 159. 



Fig. 23.— Thuya gigantea. — See page 109. 



keep the plant healthy, bright sunshine must be excluded by 

 shading except during the winter months. The plant ad- 

 vances with greater rapidity as it is farther removed from the 

 light, and the foliage then assumes a much more luxuriant 

 color ; but this rankness of growth moderates the production 

 of flowers to a large extent. Moist roots and a moist atmos- 



phere are congenial to the plant- at all times, but when the 

 flowers appear the supply of water should be reduced. 



LjELIA superbiens. — The most famous of the early collec- 

 tors of Orchids, Mr. Skinner, wrote that he discovered this 

 plant in 1839 m Guatemala. The first specimens he had 

 seen were cultivated by the Indians, to whom the plant was 



