40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUSRY, 1922. 
AN EARLY TEXT-BOOK. 
(ANE of the earliest, if not the earliest, text-books was published in 1845, 
ry under the title, ‘‘The Cultivation of Orchidaceous Plants, with 
remarks on their geographical distribution, and a select catalogue of the 
best kinds in cultivation,” by John Henshall. 
The chapter devoted to the benefit of two or more houses proves that 
the author possessed a remarkable knowledge of the subject for so early a 
date in the history of Orchid cultivation. Now, as it happens,” he states, 
“* that Orchidaceous plants are obtained from many and various climates 
-and_seasons, it is not reasonable to expect, when we take the force of natural 
‘habit into consideration, that they will all of them begin to grow at oneand 
the same period, bloom at the same time, or rest altogether at one season; 
not even if we endeavour to assimilate these seasons to those of our own 
climate ; there will always be a number of them, in a collection of the least 
pretensions, that will be springing into activit 
y and requiring excessive 
moisture and other stimulants ; 
while another portions will be speedily 
advancing to maturity, and consequently demanding for their future welfare 
quite a contrary treatment ; and a third will assume an intermediate station, 
in which flowers are produced, the brilliancy and duration of which are 
materially diminished when continued in an a 
With regard to heat and moisture, 
certainly exhibits the greatest effect upon plants, and in its proper appliance 
and withholding, rests the entire art of their cultivation. 
drying so thoroughly, 
their resting season th 
queous atmosphere.” 
Henshall remarks that ‘“ moisture 
The practice of 
I am persuaded, is very injurious to them, for during 
ey require to be kept as sound as possible, to cause 
them to produce their flowers with sufficient strength.” 
meme on 
L#LIOCATTLEYA SWINDENI.—Thi 
s new hybrid, the result of crossing L. 
‘Gwennie (Cowani x Jongheana), 
with C. Suzanne Hye (Gaskelliana alba 
* Mossiz Wagneri), has been raised in the collection of Mrs. M. J. Neale, 
‘Oxton, Kenton, nr, Exeter. The flower is of moderate size 
with the exception of a very sli 
crisped labellum. The chrome 
, and pure white, 
after Mr. E. Swinden, who, 
‘Orchids in the celebrated garden of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at 
Burford. : 
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