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of Phalenopsis rosea given by a friend I accepted, however, by way 
of experiment. It was wrapped in cotton wool and put in one of the boats 
on board the steamer, on the deck. The canvas cover of the boat was 
thrown off every fine day, and plenty of light and air admitted. The foliage 
turned a little yellow, but the plant arrived at Para, after a long and at 
first very stormy voyage, in gcod condition. Plants of Phalaenopsis. 
amabilis and Schilleriana were also in the boat, but in a tight-closed case 
with other Orchids. Both were nice, healthy young plants on blocks. On 
opening the case in Para, both came out in: healthy condition. The 
question then was, what to do with them? As the best treatment, the 
blocks with the two plants were placed in baskets filled with rough charcoal 
and sphagnum moss, and the three Phalznopsids were hung under an 
easterly piazza, where they had a full light and direct sun for about an 
hour in the morning, but not where the wind could blow heavily on them. 
Daily I looked at them, expecting to see them grow sickly and die. Instead 
of this, Phalanopsis rosea soon regained a healthy, green colour and 
showed a strong flower-spike, and the other two began to make new 
roots, which were soon followed by a new leafon each. This was early in 
October, 1882, and by 1883 the plants had doubled in size and Phalzenopsis 
rosea had been in bloom for five months, with two spikes of flowers. The 
plants never had any protection day or night. The treatment was a 
syringing about seven o’clock each morning, which was omitted if the 
sphagnum appeared moist. October, November, and the first part 
of December, 1882, were months of unprecedented dryness in Para. Instead 
of an almost daily shower, no rain fell, and the air, usually moist, was very 
dry. The daily afternoon rains began about the middle of December, and 
until May. the rainfall has been unusually great. The plants have thus 
experienced the two extremes of excessive drought and unusual moisture in 
the air. I am unable to perceive that this change had had any effect upon 
them. The temperature of Para varies from 78° to 85° in the shade. Rain 
occurs usually every afternoon, often only a slight shower, but the mornings 
are always bright. The evenings, after the shower, are usually bright and 
still, though this past winter there have been many cloudy and some rainy 
nights. There is generally a cool, fresh breeze blowing during the day, but 
tempests, tornadoes, and such beatitudes of a temperate clime are unknown. 
About April rst I was obliged to move from my house to one which had no 
Open piazza for my Phalenopsids. As the rains were excessive, I was 
afraid to put them out under trees with other Orchids, though Aérides, 
Vandas, and Saccolabiums were there doing well, and making wonderfully 
Strong, healthy growth and roots. The only place that offered was a 
shelf outside a north-west window. There the three baskets were placed, 
and not even hung up, as I had my doubts as to the suitability of the 
