102 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
two of the easiest Orchids to start with. They sent me two Odontoglossum 
Rossii and one Masdevallia Harryana (which in potting up became two). 
Later in the same year, 1 obtained a plant each of Cypripedium insigne, 
Oncidium aurosum, O. maculatum, Coelogyne cristata, Lycaste aromatica, 
and Tricophilia tortilis, also two Odontoglossum crispum. 
I was fortunate enough, in coming to Teignmouth in June, 1893, to find 
a very fair-sized greenhouse in the garden, which was, however, heated only 
by a somewhat inefficient gas stove. It consisted of two portions on 
different levels, but with no separating door. The larger division was span- 
roofed, about fifteen feet square, and fairly high, and was situated at the 
angle formed by an east and a south wall. Against the south wall was a 
long bed, running through both divisions, in which an oleander and a peach 
tree were planted. There was also a narrow centre bed in the large 
division, planted with Plumbago capensis, two or three Roses, a Clematis, 
and Boussingaultia baselloides. Scale, mealy bug, and aphis were rampant 
in the house, in which they had got a firm hold while the place was 
untenanted. In the lower division of the house (which was a lean-to, about 
ten feet by eight, against the south wall), four vines were trained against the 
roof (their roots being outside the house). I waged war with partial success 
against the mealy bug and other enemies, and, fortunately, they did not 
appear to have a special fancy for Orchids. 
Decidedly cold weather set in towards the end of the year. Some of my 
plants were at that time suspended under the vine branches in the lower 
division, and others were placed on the bed under the peach tree, I think, 
on slates. During the night of the 4th January, 1894, there was a very 
severe frost, and, on entering the greenhouse about nine o’clock the following 
morning, I found a very serious state of things. | The thermometer in the 
greenhouse then marked 29°, or three degrees of frost, and, no doubt, it 
must have been much lower during the night. Of the suspended Orchids, 
Tricophilia tortilis and Oncidium maculatum were clearly killed, and their 
leaves and bulbs were all turning yellow. | Oncidium aurosum and Lycaste 
aromatica lost one or more bulbs and leaves. The former recovered so far 
as to make a small bulb the following year, but ultimately this was found to 
be rotten, and the plant died either during the cold weather of February, 
1895, or soon afterwards. Its roots had, before the frost, been very 
barbarously half cut away by a gardener, whom I then occasionally 
employed, with the idea of not moving it to a larger pot. It is very possible 
that but for this it might have fared better. 
The leaves of the Lycaste were very badly blotched. The plant was 
_ taken out of its pot, and the rotten parts were cut away, and two pieces 
were potted up separately. 
_Each of these plants recovered, and made fair growth, and I still have 
