164 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
And now I think I may venture on a little advice. Find out what 
“manurial aid” your Orchids require—“ Feeding ”’ is the term Mr. Cookson 
uses, and I think it is a better term—also find out the proper time to apply 
it, and then see that they get it. If your water contains all they want 
ready to hand don’t put more in; it is unnecessary and might do mischief, 
besides being wasteful. If your water does not contain what they want, 
find out what it is, if you can, and put itin. It is no good starving your 
plants almost to death, and then complaining that they are “‘ bad doers.” 
On the other hand, don’t give them a lot of things they don’t want, not yet 
what they do want in too strong doses or too great quantities. Give your 
plants what they require—even if you have to call it manure—and they will 
thrive ; neglect it, and you will soon see the difference. 
; ARGUS. 
THE HISTORY OF ORCHID CULTIVATION 
: (Continued from page 136). 
THE Botanical Register for 1836 contains figures of thirty-one Orchids, of 
which at least eighteen were novelties, and a few others new to cultivation. 
It may be remarked here that both the twenty-first and twenty-second 
volumes of this work are dated 1836 on the title-page, but the dates on the 
plates show that the former covers the period from March, 1835, to 
January, 1836, and the latter from February, 1836, to the end of the year, 
and it is to the latter volume that the following notes refer. All the later 
volumes coincide with the years, and it was previously overlooked that this 
does not apply to the earlier volumes. Several of these novelties were very 
striking ones, and include Angreecum caudatum (t. 1844), introduced from 
Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges, and flowered in their Nursery in August, 
1835, being cultivated on a piece of wood; Trichopilia tortilis (t. 1863), 
introduced from Mexico in the previous year, and flowered in the collection 
of George Barker, Esq., at Springfield, Birmingham; Zygopetalum cochleare 
(t. 1857), a native of Trinidad, which flowered with Mr. Knight in August, 
1835; Oncidium Russellianum (t. 1830)—now known as Miltonia—which 
flowered in the Duke of Bedford’s collection at Woburn, having been brought 
from Brazil by the Hon. Capt. Roos; Aspasia variegata (t. 1907), a South 
American species received from Mr. Knight in February, 1836, and sub- 
sequently from Mr. Bateman; Myanthus deltoideus (t. 1896), a Demerara 
species, which flowered in the collection of Richard Harrison, Esq., in 
October, 1835; Bifrenaria aurantiaca (t. 1875), also from Demerara, and 
flowered in the Duke of Devonshire’s collection at Chiswick at the same 
time as the preceding; Epidendrum armeniacum (t. 1867) a Brazilian 
species received’ from Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, in June, 1835; E. 
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