140 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Messrs. Loddiges. Finally, if a plant was weak the flowers should be 
picked off as they appear. | 
“When your plant is in flower,” he remarks, ‘ wrap moss, paper, or 
some such article round the basket and take it to the drawing-room. This 
will obviate the necessity of ladies entering the Orchidaceous house, which 
few of them like to do, and the change will be a great benefit to your plant, 
After unloading itself of its beauty and fragrance in the drawing-room it 
will begin growing when brought back to the Orchidaceous house with 
redoubled exertions.” 
At Kingsbury Beaton appears to have been very differently situated with 
regard to obtaining plants, for Mr. Harris despatched a collector, ont 
Charles M’Kenzie, in search of Orchids. Beaton’s treatment of newly 
imported plants was in accord with the modern system in principle, as its 
object was to gradually restore their plumpness before making any attempt 
to plant them, but some of the details, such as stacking them in piles and 
covering them with mats, have long been superseded. 
About a year later Beaton was appointed gardener to Sir William 
Middleton, Bart., at Shrubland Hall, near Ipswich, where he again had 
an Orchid house under his charge, and it is to this collection that out 
article is specially devoted, though it seemed desirable to preface it with an 
account of Beaton and his methods. For the following particulars we 
indebted to our esteemed correspondent, who was a grower of Orchids until 
quite recently, and who, with one or two other veteran Orchidists, we 2% 
proud to number among our readers. 
Few gardeners of the present day knew the late Mr. Donald Beaton, 
who was for many years gardener to the late Sir William Middleton, - 
Shrubland Hall, near Ipswich, and a still less number of Orchid growels» 
indeed, he was better known to his contemporaries as @ pioneer of ‘ 
‘“‘bedding out” system of flower gardening, and as a hybridise of a 
bedding or Zonal Pelargonium; yet he was a grower and a lover of pot 
at a time when their management was far less understood than n0W) ; 
when Orchidists numbered about one to a hundred of those of the : i 
day. As I had the pleasure of serving under him as plant foretie in ie 
and 1848, I have thought that perhaps a list of the principal kinds 
grown there might be of interest to the readers of the ORCHID eg 
As already hinted, the cultivation of Orchids was then but little 4” 
stood, in comparison with these times, and one Orchid hou ad 
accommodation for all the family; whereas now there are usually ei 
houses set apart for their culture, in which they can be classified pn 
to their respective requirements, as to temperature, moisture, &e. day- 
rough-and-ready method—or would be so considered at the ia 
nevertheless some of the Orchids which like stove treatme 
very well, and especially the old Phaius grandifolius, then know® 
