THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
EXPORTING ORCHIDS TO JAPAN. 
C HE interesting article by Mr. J. M. Black on the treatment of exported 
established Orchids (p. 41) has drawn attention to a subject that is 
-well worthy of the careful 
Tthe plants as well as 
the purchasers who 
receive them. Doubt¬ 
less more than one 
iikely customer has re¬ 
frained from purchas¬ 
ing plants from a 
-distance on account 
-of the damage that 
smight result from un¬ 
skilled packing, or the 
-subsequent treatment. 
No such fear need be 
-entertained in the 
Orchids can be packed 
to travel almost any 
-distance, and during a 
-considerable period, 
an fact, they travel far 
better than the great 
majority of plants. 
A few years ago 
Messrs. J. & A. 
McBean received an 
-order to despatch 
various choice Cyru¬ 
bidium hybrids to 
Baron Ryokichi 
Kawada, of. Tokyo, cymbidiums exported from England to japan. 
Japan. Three boxes, 
-each containing two plants, were sent by parcel post. The Baron 
was so pleased with the Orchids when they arrived that he had one 
of the boxes photographed, so that the method of packing and the 
splendid condition of the plants could be made known. Our illustration 
shows that the box was lined with cotton wool, and the surface papered, in 
