306 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
interesting to repeat the substance of Mr. Woodall’s note :—‘‘ The plant of 
Vanda ccerulea shown is interesting as well as beautiful, because it endured 
for nearly three years the most varying treatment while trying to find out 
what suited it best. It speaks volumes for the hardiness and vigour of this 
species to be able to say that after enduring the heat and moisture of a 
warm stove for a year and a half it has now recovered so thoroughly asto 
be able to produce a spike of bloom to which a First-class Certificate was 
awarded. The secret—if there be one—of success with this lovely flower is 
air, abundance of it whenever possible, with sufficient moisture in the 
atmosphere to counteract the excessive drying caused by ventilation. 
Warm vinery treatment from mid-March to mid-October, a winter near the 
glass in the Cattleya house, and in the end of January or in early February 
a dry, cold rest in a house where Primulas and such-like plants are.” It 
would be interesting to know how far Mr. Hay’s treatment agrees with the 
preceding. The species has sometimes the character of being a bad grower, i 
but this, we believe, largely arises from wrong treatment. The importance 
of a complete cool rest in winter is a point sometimes overlooked, but 
the conditions under which it grows in a wild state, both in the Khasia 
Hills and in Upper Burma, justify the method of treatment adopted by 
Mr. Woodall with such success. Mr. R. Moore reports finding it in the 
Shan States on trees overhanging a stream at 5,000 feet elevation, but not 
in deep shade. The temperature here varies from 80 degrees in the summer 
months to a few degrees below freezing point in the winter, and the rainfall 
is from 40 to 60 inches per year, distributed principally from May to ~ 
November, though showers also occur from January to April, and the dews 
are heavy during the winter months, December especially. These hints. 
should be useful to those who experience a difficulty with it. It is the 
Burmese form wkich is here illustrated, and this is well known to be 
superior to the Khasian type. The latter also grows under very similar — 
conditions, and these were pointed out in detail at page 362 of our second 
volume. 
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ORCHID COLLECTING IN NORTH CELEBES. 
Very few Celebes Orchids are in cultivation, though a very graphic account 
of the difficulties attendant on their collection is given by Mr. Sidney J. 
Hickson in a work entitled “ A Naturalist in North Celebes.” He writes 
71) s— 
“Of the many heart-rending disappointments it was my fate 10 
undergo, I think that my experience as an Orchid collector was the chief. 
When I first arrived, and was well enough to search for such things, there 
were few Orchids—in accessible places, at any rate—in flower. The only 
