THE ORCHID REVIEW. [S* 
r, 1921. 
dire heat in.winter. A tub of water was placed near it into which I could 
plunge the basket six or seven times - a day, or as often as I passed it.” 
iTrans. Hort. Soc. vii. p. 499). 
About the same time Sir Joseph Banks devised one of the 
successful methods of treating 
epiphytal plants then known. 
He placed the plants in light 
cylindrical wicker baskets cr 
cages of suitable width, of 
which the frame work was 
-of long slender twigs wattled 
together at the bottom, the 
upper portion being left open 
that the plant might extend > 
its growth in any direction, 
and yet be kept steady in its 
station, the ends ,df the twigs 
having been tied together by 
the twine that suspended the 
whole from the woodwork of 
the house. A thin layer- of 
vegetable mould was strewn on 
the floor of the basket on which 
the rootstock was placed, and 
then covered slightly over with 
a sufficiency of moss to shade it 
and preserve a due degree of 
moisture. Our illustration shows 
Sir Joseph Banks in 1817. 
From the accompanying illustration of Vanda Roxburghii as cultivated 
by Mr. Sigismud Rucker in 
1840, it will be seen that he 
was using baskets twenty 
years before the period 
specified by Mr. Jenkins. 
The illustration is copied 
from Paxton’s Magazine of 
Botany , where it is stated 
that the plant can be 
cultivated in a rough 
wooden basket, or one formed of thin strips of pliable wood, with numerous 
openings at the sides and bottom. Moss, pieces of decayed wood, or any 
