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flower, and grown in precisely the same way as R. coccinea, but with a 
little shade during the hottest and driest weather. Amateurs should try 
this fine plant. I do not observe any notices of its being much grown in 
Britain. I will gladly exchange a good 2$ or 3-foot piece, well rooted, for 
a plant of Vanda Hookeriana, which I do not possess. 
I have a modest plant of Vanda (Renanthera) Lowii, received from 
England two years ago, and grown in the same way as the larger Aérides ; it 
appears to be quite free. V. Amesiana, V. Kimballiana, V. coerulea, 
Renanthera Imschootiana, and Aérides Vandarum languished and 
promised a collapse, so they were removed to Orizaba at 4000 feet, and 
have done splendidly. All are in full sun there, and strictly on long blocks, 
covering the same with roots, and thriving with many in the free air. I 
must not omit to say that Vanda ceerulescens—a pretty slow grower—does 
here finely in company with Vanda teres, tied to the block. Medium-sized 
imported plants take about three years to get into really good condition, 
capable of producing fine flowers as grown here. With us here, V. 
Roxburghii is tiresomely slow, and roots very slowly. 
Vanda Sanderiana—ah! I pause a moment to take breath—truly a 
stubborn beast. It gets from roo to 120 inches of rainfall per annum, 
sunlight or light shade as seems to be necessary, and the rains are 
distributed over eight months of the year, with a few showers during the 
dry season for good measure—that is all the water it gets(?) To this I 
may add a range of temperatures of from 70° to 95° F. for eight months 
and during the cooler months 60° to 80° as extremes. And of a verity my 
best plant has made three pairs of healthy leaves and a fair root growth— 
not a rotten one on the plant. It has actually accomplished all this in the 
trifle of seven years and eight months, to be very exact, and has flowered 
once. Is the game worth the candle? or what is the matter? My 
correspondent—an old friend, very competent and thoroughly reliable— 
collected my plants in Mindanas, and described minutely the conditions 
under which they were growing in company with Aérides Lawrencez. 
These conditions I have duplicated apparently, so I repeat, what is the 
matter? as their companion, A. Lawrencea, is a perfectly well-behaved 
Orchid. 
Other Philippine sorts—warm growers—prosper exceedingly, such as 
Vanda lamellata and its variety Boxallii, V. luzonica, a recent introduc. 
tion, Aérides quinquevulnera, Cymbidium pendulum—broad leaved variety 
—Gramatophyllum Measuresianum, Platyclinis glumacea, P. filiformis, 
P. Cobbiana, P. latifolia, and another species I do not know the name of. 
These latter are grown in baskets with polypodium fibre, surfaced with a 
short-growing native moss, and keep in excellent health, increasing yearly 
and flowering quite up to the mark. Some other species and genera 
