52 ORCHIDS. 
the Dendrobe and many other varieties, they are very suitable for 
the ordinary greenhouse. It is better to cultivate the larger grow- 
ing kinds in pots; the smaller on blocks of wood, cork, or in bas- 
kets. They need abundant drainage, moist temperature, shade 
from strong light, cleanliness, and a moderate rate or time for 
sleep in winter. These conditions will secure healthy flowering 
plants.” 
As one stands at the entrance of the long, cool orchid-house 
of Mr. Ames, and looks down the vista of successive banks of 
flowers, it can be easily imagined that the poet Wordsworth had 
enjoyed a similarly beautiful sight just before composing the fol- 
lowing lines : — 
There is a fresh and lovely sight; 
A beauteous heap and hill of moss. 
All lovely colors there you see, 
And mossy net-work, too, is there, 
As if by hand of lady fair - 
The work had woven been. 
And cups, the darlings of the eye 
So deep in their vermilion dye. 
Ah, me! what lovely tints are there, 
Of olive, green, and scarlet bright ! 
In spikes and branches, and in stars, 
Green, red, and pearly white. 
