Zygopetalum 



because most people keep it warm. I discovered, 

 Irom my own experience, that it prefers the cool 

 house ; but that secret had long been known to 

 Messrs. Sander. Zi/zjopetalum Gautieri is a climber. 



ZYGOPETALUM CEINITUM. 



growing exclusively upon tree-ferns, which its roots 

 so clasp and penetrate that they can hardly be 

 removed. It is always imported on the fern, dead 

 or alive. I had such a piece, dwindling as usual 



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