22 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1918. — 
a flue against the back wall in what was then called the propagating house, : 
the Aérides growing and flowering freely, its roots clinging to the back wall, | 
as also Saccolabium guttatum. There were also plants of Dendrobium : 
Pierardi and D. cucullatum flowering freely, which had recently been : 
brought home from Calcutta by Mr. Pierard. Most of the others were { 
potted in common soil, and the pots plunged to the rim in a tan bed. 
Between the years 1823 and 1825 a considerable number of species were ~ 
received from Trinidad, these having been sent by Mr. David Lockhart, © 
Superintendent of the garden there. Amongst them were the first plants — 
of Stanhopea insignis, Oncidium Papilio, Lockhartia elegans, Catasetum © 
tridentatum, Ionopsis pallidiflora, and others, all of which were epiphytal, 
and many of them being sent growing on portions of branches as cut from ~ 
thetrees. These, being accompanied by instructions from Mr. Lockhart as — 
to how they should be treated, led to the successful cultivation of epiphytal — 
Orchids. 
In 1884 the valuable Orchid collection formed at Woburn Abbey was ~ 
presented ta Kew by the Duke of Bedford, and a year later a large span- 
roofed house was erected on the site of an old stove, and in Sir William — 
Hooker’s account of the house we read that ‘the centre is filled witha 
handsome slate staging, so large as to admit of a raised walk through the — 
centre, thus enabling the visitor to look down upon each side of the house, — 
while over his head and from the rafters on either hand are suspended wire — 
baskets filled with beautiful tropical epiphytes.”” This house opened on to ‘ 
another cooler stove, and, the report proceeds, ‘‘ we are enabled to remove ~ 
the splendid epiphytes when in blossom to a less heated atmosphere, and j 
thus preserve them in beauty for a much longer time.” 
In 1846 there was a further increase, by the bequest of the Rev. J- 
Clowes, Broughton Hall, Manchester, who willed his fine collection to Kew. 
Some two years later the number of species cultivated is said to have 
amounted to 755, and in 1850 to 830. About 1851 the smaller kinds were 
removed to some Orchid pits near the site of the present ones. From 
about 1855 to 1862 part of the collection was maintained in some old fruit 
houses in the Herbaceous ground, which had been remodelled and heated | 
by hot water, and in 1862 the remainder were transferred to them, where — 
they remained until the T-range was erected, in 1868. The eastern wing 
of this range was arranged as a warm and cool Orchid division, entered — 
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through a small lobby devoted to Insectivorous plants. In 1896 these 
two houses were replaced by four smaller ones, built on the latest 
principles, and these houses are still in use. The adjacent Orchid pits 
have also been remodelled, and at present there are four, Warm, Inter- 
mediate, and Cool, with one devoted to Dendrobiums, besides a ~~ 
Cattleya house, built in 1912. 
