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many cases will quickly make quite serviceable plants. This general 
propagation is the only means of keeping a healthy stock of many of the 
species, which it is doubtful if we shall ever see again imported in the same 
quantity as in the past. 
GENERAL REMARKS.—These two months comprise the busiest period of 
the year, and this season, with the reconstruction of our collections and the 
abnormal conditions, it will be doubly so. It will take time to bring our 
collections up to their pre-war excellence, but we may now hope to be free 
from the worries and anxiety of the past four years, and the blessings of 
peace should enable us to follow our peaceful calling with the same devotion. 
as of yore. And if our reunion at Chelsea this year may not be as'large as 
many that are past, we may be thankful that circumstances permit of our 
once again taking part in this great festival. 
&| ORCHIDS OF COSTA RICA. 6 
AST September a visit to a frierid’s cattle farm up at Irazu, at an 
elevation of nearly 7000 feet, gave me an opportunity to do a little 
collecting. Among delightful surprises was that of finding a low tree 
covered with plants of Telipogon in flower, an extraordinary genus. Some 
of the plants were scarcely an inch across, yet had the full-sized flower of 
the largest ones. I had always thought Oncidium iridifolium the largest 
flowered of our diminutives ; this plant far surpasses it. Of course, the 
two do -not grow in any close proximity. I had not thought that 
Hexadesmia occurred at such an altitude, yet here was one in abundance, 
in contiguity to Oncidium Warscewiczii. 
On the return journey I saw, in the hedges of the Matamora district, 
an Epidendrum with long, pendant inflorescences of ochraceous salmon 
colour. { have from the Pacific side another Epidendrum with much 
larger, primrose yellow flowers, about I4in. across. In this case the whole 
plant is pendant, growing on the perpendicular bark of large trees, whereas 
the other local species grows in the crotches, natural or otherwise, of fences. 
These fences consist of many species of trees, which are planted in the 
form of stakes in the dry season, but soon root and become trees of more or 
less vigour, this depending on local conditions of richness of soil and the 
prevailing winds. At medium elevations, 450c to 7000 feet, on good soil, 
. these fences have preserved many Orchids in the midst of cultivated 
districts, which but for their asylum would have disappeared long ago. 
This year my Cycnoches have only female flowers. I was surprised to 
find a plant of this genus on the farm here, at an altitude of 4700 feet, at 
least an unusual occurrence. C. H. LANKESTER. 
