“48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
From the upper limit of Coffee cultivation in Jamaica, about 4,500 feet, 
up to 7,000 feet, there is a very considerable extent of land under forest—a 
region comparable in extent with the Pacho region. It is impossible to 
conceive a more eligible tract for the naturalisation of this Orchid than is 
afforded between 4,500 and 7,000 feet in Jamaica. The way in which this 
enterprise—the naturalisation of this Orchid on the Blue Mountains—could 
be best accomplished would be to establish groups of the Orchid at 
intervals of probably a mile in the forest. Healthy plants tied to the 
trunks and branches of trees would require no further care. The majority 
of the plants would flower in about a year. After flowering seeds mature 
in a few months. Thus within a couple of years myriads of seeds, by 
reason of their buoyancy, would be dispersed over the forest. And it 
may be confidently predicted that in the course of ten years scores of 
thousands of plants would be naturalised and fit for export annually. 
This Orchid thrives on the Cinchona trees, hence some hundreds of it 
might be established at the Cinchona plantation. Wider scope is afforded 
for cross fertilisation when a considerable number of plants are under 
treatment, 7.¢., large groups embracing varied forms. It would also prove 
advantageous to grow a small percentage of a few closely allied species of 
Odontoglossum in order to induce hybridisation. Thus the Cinchona 
plantation alone, on the trees and on the rocks, would become a nucleus of 
production. 
It has been mentioned that some 25 per cent. (sometimes far more) of 
this Orchid exported from Colombia perish in transit to Europe. The 
plants are received from the peon collectors, at a height of 7,000 feet above 
the sea level. The plants are then packed in cases, carried on mules’ or 
bullocks’ backs two days over a lofty, bleak and dreary ridge of the Andes, 
11,500 feet ; then fifty. miles, partly i in carts and partly in short railways, 
over the great savannah of Bogota; then four days on mules to the river 
Magdalena ; then about a week down that river to Savanilla. Thus a severe 
ordeal, by reason of the violent change of temperature and the time 
occupied. There could be practically no loss by exporting from Jamaica, 
and the expenses attendant upon transit from Jamaica would be compara- 
tively light. 
It may not be amiss to refer to a notable example of naturalisation 
furnished by Jamaica,* by which that island has been enriched to the 
extent of millions of money, and this by spontaneous production—+-¢. ” 
logwood. 
* The nun Orchid (Phaius grandifolius) is said to have been introduced by Mr. Wiles, 
whilst in charge of the Botanic Garden at Gordon Town, and it is now very abundant on 
the higher lands of the interior.—Ep. Bu//etin. 
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